Tag: Park

  • Watch That Fall

    Watch That Fall

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    A hiker stops to admire the 100-foot (30-meter) Cedar Falls, the centerpiece of Petit Jean State Park.

  • February Sky from Rich Mountain

    February Sky from Rich Mountain

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    Changing weather over western Arkansas’s Rich Mountain, where you’ll find Queen Wilhelmina State Park.

  • Ouachita Willow – August Morning

    Ouachita Willow – August Morning

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    At the Spillway area of Lake Ouachita.One of my most popular images and a personal favorite.

  • Water Above and Below

    Water Above and Below

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    A certain spot on Lake Nimrod – and one of my favorite B/W conversions.

  • LOViT WWT

    LOViT WWT

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    All those letters stand for the Lake Ouachita Vista Trail – and the Watchable Wildlife Trail section of it seen here. This section can be found off of Hwy 270 where you turn to go to Shangri La (map below). In addition to this wonderful elevated boardwalk, there are paved trails through the surrounding woods…

  • DeGray Birdhouse

    DeGray Birdhouse

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    A wildlife viewing blind in the state park on Lake DeGray that I always called “The Birdhouse”. (The bird is my partner Frank.) This was located on Green Heron Trail at the park, but storms tore the roof off of it and I was told they had no plans to fix it – so the…

  • Fishing is a Rush

    Fishing is a Rush

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    These gentlemen were fishing at the dam on Lake Nimrod – while it was running full-bore. And they were catching them too! It was also one of those rare times I thought to take some video…

  • Ancient Seabed – Recent Falls

    Ancient Seabed – Recent Falls

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    Much of Arkansas’s strata is comprised of layers of sandstone that was once ancient seabeds – now hardened into stone and tossed at crazy angles due to mountain-building processes (orogeny). The weathered formations in the foreground of this photo show some of that – while the dam in the background is of much more recent…

  • A Contrast of Trees

    A Contrast of Trees

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    These two photos were taken about 10 years apart at the same location – Stout’s Point at Arkansas’s Petit Jean State Park. I called the original image (the bottom one) “A Contrast of Trees” because it’s springtime and one tree is just starting to bud while the other is still bare. Years later it’s the…