Weekly Grist Gallery, November 13, 2011
Fall, falling down, and ferrous oxide
ust like clockwork, leaves are turning and falling as fall 2011 introduces us to winter 2011. One of the best places on the planet to observe fall, if you catch it right, is Arkansas Highway 16 as it meanders through the Ozarks. Most of these images are from that legendary thoroughfare, one is at Greers Ferry Dam and a couple are on the Princeton Pike, a.k.a. Arkansas Highway 190 west of my hometown, Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Though fall colors are common to all images, those colors and leaves are not necessarily the central point of interest. Oh,“ferrous oxide” is the other name for “rust.” Take a gander:
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This is probably an old corn crib. It is in a pasture on Arkansas Highway 16 just west of where Highway 16 meets Arkansas Highway 5 outside of Heber Springs, Arkansas. The camera was level for the shoot so the building lean is as you see it.
Just across the highway from the corn crib is a collection of rusting old cars, mostly from the fifties. What you see here is a '53 or 54 Plymouth, a '54 Olds, and a Buick of fifties vintage. You can barely make out the left fin of a mid-fifties Cadillac behind the Olds.
A '54 Oldsmobile leads a stationary parade of rusting automobiles. The second in line appears to be a '59 Ford. The third is anyone's guess.
A closer look at the venerable '54 Olds which had a barn-burner V8 engine that would peel some serious rubber.
The car collection is at Arkansas Highway 16 and, I'm not making this up, Toothfairy Lane. There's got to be a story there.
West of Greer's Ferry (the town), on highway 16 I found this still standing but bruised barn built on the side of a hill.
Same barn, looking down the bore.
Not far from Fairfield Bay, an upscale development, is a remnant not so upscale. Tarpaper was apparently the last outside covering. The old structure ain't long for this world.
Also west of Greers Ferry, sits a currently three-wheeled 9N Ford tractor. Chances are good that what ever it will take to mend the tractor's ills is not in local inventories.
A closer look at the tractor.
At first I thought this abandoned establishment was formerly the "Wooden Nickel." Then I looked closer and it says. "The Wooden Nickee." Hmmm? By the way, the last gas price on the pumps was $1.31 per gallon.
A neat old barn on Highway 16 west of Clinton, Arkansas.
A colorful hill off County Road 75 (Dabney Road) south of Arkansas Highway 16 West of Rupert.
This is a 1941 (or '42) Chevy bob-truck on the Princeton Pike west of Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
The same truck from the side.
A fly fisherman tries his luck in the Little Red River below Greers Ferry Dam. This was shot from the top of the dam with my small Nikon point and shoot and is a very small part of the overall image, so it is not as sharp as I would like, but it was too cool not to show.
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