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Warming the Winter Sky

Warming the Winter Sky

Original photography by Mark Corder.

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Winter Dawn over Lake Roosevelt

Winter Dawn over Lake Roosevelt

A Winter sky and stone pavilion overlook Lake Roosevelt at central Arkansas’s Petit Jean State Park.

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Abandoned Shangri-La

Abandoned Shangri-La #1

Abandoned Shangri-La #2

A double-feature today: Two shots of an old church or school (or both) near the shores of Lake Ouachita in the Tompkin’s Bend / Shangri-La area. You may remember that Shangri-La was a fictitious place in the novel Lost Horizon - which I read as a kid, and was then delighted to learn there was a place on Lake Ouachita with the same name.

In the story, those who lived in Shangri-La never grew old … but since this is actually down the road from there, I guess the magic doesn’t reach that far.

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Petit Jean réside dans sa tombe

Petit Jean réside dans sa tombe

The purported grave of “Little John” – the possible namesake of Petit Jean Mountain. If you don’t know the tearful (and somewhat ridiculous) story of the young lovers Adrienne Dumont and Chavet, here is one of the many places you can read a summarized version on the ‘net.

Personally, I’ll tell you that this whole story is as fictitious as the one told in Gone with the Wind was – and I do not believe this is an actual grave at all. See this site for why …

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