The back side of a shallow but strong squall line manifested as a dark mass of nimbostratus in the distance, with a border-straddling fountain of the International Peace Garden in the foreground. For this shot, I was standing in two nations at once: the U.S. (right of centerline in the pavement bricks) and Canada (left). The marvelously landscaped and planted park also has many acres of natural forests and lakes native to the “Turtle Mountains”, a plateau several hundred feet above the surrounding northern Great Plains, and is well worth the visit for anyone landing in northern North Dakota during post-chasing down time. The border here, by the way, is not precisely on the 49th parallel, as it should be by treaty, but a few tens of yards to the south (or tens of meters, if you’re Canadian). Land surveying was a far-less-accurate practice when the border was set, in the 1800s, than today!
13 N Dunseith ND (10 Jun 12) Looking E
48.9993, -100.0567