Niagara's landfills are spectacular: mountains of made land, rising out of the earth, gently breathing their methane, almost beautiful in their grassy silence.
Yes, tomorrow this beautiful, rural part of Wales will return to relative silence after four days of clapping, cheering and laughter, as well as the odd moo and baa.
The following week the children returned to school and apart from a minute's silence and a morning spent learning the words to America the Beautiful, their lives were remarkably unchanged.