Our last bookstore signing on our last afternoon in Sioux Falls at Barnes and Noble (on one corner of the busiest intersection in all of South Dakota!) Chit-chatted with book people and gopher hunters and some aspiring author/illustrators here, and a geneologist. Signed copies of !2 Days of Christmas Dogs and a stack of Discontented Gophers. Spent the late afternoon strolling around Falls Park, and the old downtown area.
More pics from yesterday and a couple from today.
One last book-signing in Sioux Falls. It’s been fun, but yow. I am really really starting to miss home. The kids, the dog, the yard, even the rain. I miss everything. Taxi, please!
It was a busy trip but we enjoyed some natural wonders… and unnatural wonders, as well. (Pronghorn antelope on the highway between Rapid City and Pierre, a six foot â€jackrabbit†and other oddities at Wall Drug, in Wall, S.D., and a nice formation of geese flying over the award-winning S.D. Historical Society building in Pierre.)
We (my book-designer husband, Mark and I) are having a great time in South Dakota. We don’t get a lot of snow at home (Portland, Or.) so we enjoyed the snowstorm the first night – even though it made the roads slippery-slide-y and put a pox on our plan for a quick trip to see Mt Rushmore… We’re meeting a lot of nice people, too. Our hosts from the South Dakota State Historical Society Press, Nancy Tystad Koupal and Martyn Beeny for example. We’re learning lots of interesting local history, geography and culture. My first-ever school visits in Pierre, and Aberdeen were fun, fun, fun. Only a couple minor bugs with the program, easily worked out. The kids asked great questions! It was handy to have Mark there to answer book-design and production type questions.