Bluff Spring Journal
Current Journal 2007
October 2007
One final note from September. I had the great idea of taking a harvest moon photograph reflection picture but did not count on the low lying clouds along the Buffalo River. So... here's what came out of standing the in the water for over an hour.
Interesting but not exactly what I had in mind.
Oct. 13th
The elk are bugling in the Boxley Valley. The big bull elk are defending their herds from the satellite smaller bulls for the right to father the next generation. Below are a few of the cows crossing the river with their very interested bull following close behind.
October 20th
My lovely bride and I headed out early this morning for a look at the fall color and to take a little hike to Kings Bluff. There is still a lot of green out there with patchy occurrences of color. It is still going to be a couple of weeks before the real show is in full swing
. We had a great day with the dogs hiking in the woods. We even got them to pose for a picture.
Oct. 26, 2007
My best laid plans were to be packed and ready to head south towards Richland Creek in Arkansas by noon today. I had the packing mostly done and my 'ready' part was looking forward to getting off early and getting to my campsite before dark. Setting up my tent in the dark after sundown was not high on my list of thing's I'd like to do tonight. Then the call came. Help! We've lost all of our newspaper and yearbook files. I headed out towards the school hoping that I'd find some small problem that would be fixed quickly. I'd be a hero and off I would head towards the woods. Two hours later and several, "How could that happen" exclamations, I found the files and partially restored access to the server. All was not lost and I was a semi-hero.
I was now seriously behind schedule and knew I would have to hoof it to beat the sunset. Then it seemed that every thing I had to do to leave took an extra few minutes. The cedar poles I was taking to the cabin to be used as table legs took longer to secure to the roof of my SUV. Getting the camping gear, food and my photography equipment seemed to take forever. Finally I saw I wasn't going to make my appointed destination in time so I slowed down, enjoyed the drive to the cabin and spent the night under a toasty warm blanket on the couch in front of an equally toasty fire.
Oct. 27, 2007
I headed out the door at 5:20 am and drove the some 47 miles to Richland Creek arriving just in time to meet some photography friends. We then headed out to catch the morning light and a few of the changing fall colors. Of all the pictures I took I liked this one the most. My lovely bride remarked that it looked like a painting. I agree-there is a master painter whose colors are painted every fall for our enjoyment.
Not only did I get to hike around in the woods I also got to go back to camp and enjoy a campfire breakfast of bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs and dutch oven biscuits. Bill Dark is quite the chef. I think he needs his own Food TV network show!