Cameron Bluffs at Arkansas’s Mt. Magazine State Park in early Spring. B/W version below…
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Magazine Lodge Panorama – April 2013
A panorama showing part of the beautiful lodge at Mount Magazine State Park. Once again, I don’t care how many shots you take – you still can’t fit the whole thing into a single frame without doing a fly-over! B/W version below…
Signal Hill – April 5th, 2013
I took this shot in mid-morning on my 50th birthday – April 5th, 2013 – and I chose the highest point in Arkansas as my destination for purely symbolic reasons. (I likewise stashed a 50-cent piece up there for the same reason.)
Just behind the beautiful lodge at Mt. Magazine State Park you can take a trail to this highest point – 2,753 feet above mean sea level (about 839 meters). There’s a USGS survey marker set into flagstones arranged in the shape of Arkansas – but don’t expect sweeping vistas because you’re surrounded by trees … other places in the park have the Grand Views. I’ve noticed that it’s almost exclusively hardwood and deciduous trees up here too, with almost no evergreens. A weird panorama shot is below…
Burial Mound – Toltec State Park
An ancient burial mound – appropriate enough for the last day of Winter, 2013…
This mound at Toltec Mounds State Park in central Arkansas was built by the Plumb Bayou culture between 650 A.D. and 1050 A.D., and it’s rounded-top indicates it is a burial mound – different from the larger, flat-topped ceremonial mounds also found at this site. Color version below…