Weekly Grist Gallery, February 20, 2011

Meandering through the Piney Woods

In Arkansas, west of the Delta, the Pine trees start. Millions of acres are covered by these hardy conifers. Scattered in the forests are cities, towns, homes, former homes, cemeteries, and a lot of evidence of past residents and how they lived. Today we find a few of those instances.

 
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    The old fillin' station in Kingsland, Arkansas was really a "service" station and the new service stations are "fillin'" stations if you get my drift.
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    The old house next door to the station is beginning its ultimate surrender to gravity.
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    The first jonquils of the season on Cross Road north of Kingsland, Arkansas.
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    More of the same.
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    This old fire tower, still mostly intact, is on Arkansas Highway 229 near the Bunn community north of Fordyce, Arkansas.
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    The "house" atop the tower.
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    This old church is still standing courtesy of surrounding trees. While I was shooting it, I had a close, but benign, encounter with a member of the Dallas County sheriff's department. Everthing ended well.
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    A small bulding at an abandoned home place on Hwy. 229.
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    The Robinson family plot in Cross Roads Cemetery north of Kingsland, Arkansas proudly displays the Colors.

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