Tag: Rocks & Stone

  • Iron Springs in May Green

    Iron Springs in May Green

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    Iron Springs is a small roadside park on Scenic Highway 7,and a location on the Ouachita National Recreation Trail.

  • LMF – Horseshoe View

    LMF – Horseshoe View

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    An overlook for the Little Missouri Falls.

  • 7 Hollows Arch

    7 Hollows Arch

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    The stone arch found on Petit Jean State Park’s Seven Hollows Trail. It’s believed this arch once spanned the entire hollow, since the bottom is littered with large boulders that seem to match up to it.

  • No Horizon

    No Horizon

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    Taken from a lookout on Arkansas’s Mount Magazine.

  • 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.

  • Bard Springs Dam

    Bard Springs Dam

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    Bard Springs is a very secluded spot deep in the Ouachita National Forest.

  • A Romantic View of Ada Valley

    A Romantic View of Ada Valley

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    A young couple enjoys a view of the Ada Valley from Stout’s Point at Arkansas’s Petit Jean State Park.

  • Pointing to Sunset

    Pointing to Sunset

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    I’m surprised at how popular this simple image has proven to be over the years.It’s a small point just off the road at Brady Mountain, in the Ouachitas of Arkansas .

  • Storm Quarry

    Storm Quarry

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    An old rock quarry at Pinnacle Mountain State Park on a stormy day.

  • Bear Cave Panorama

    Bear Cave Panorama

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    A panoramic view from the west side of the huge “Bear Cave” rock formation at Petit Jean State Park.

  • 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…