Hot Springs, Arkansas

Stained glass window from one of the bath houses..there were so many pretty windows!

Neat springs and things to look at

This road is so neat!

Granny's Kitchen....where you can get breakfast and Bud Light!

We missed this by a couple days.

More Trip Stuff

We stopped at this scenic lookout...nice view from there!  pretty much straight down, so I looked out instead of down!

Lake Taneycomo

Table Rock Dam There was a really nice visitor's center overlooking this....good place to go.

Goodness it was hot while we were there!

Had lunch here at Branson Landing...Richard uses their rubs on his pork when he smokes it.

and it was hot the next day too!

The falling "S" caught my attention...then I noticed the "R" was backwards! Ha!

Birdhouses and a Green Pool

this property had a birdhouse on every fence post around a couple sides of the property...pretty neat!

Glad I didn't want to go for a swim! Ha! Green pool!

The Return of Charlotte

The morning we left for our trip I saw that Charlotte had returned...the day after she made her egg sack! I read online where they can build up to four egg sacks. Was news to me, as I thought they just did one...I knew she was exceptional! Ha!

The Possum Haw has it's pretty berries on it! so excited to have one of these!

Charlotte and her dinner

She caught a Painted Lady here....I was kind of bummed one day she had caught a Monarch

Emily playing when she was at the house yesterday..

She is something else....wore her hat and gloves to the ballpark. She also wore these into the store that morning...along with her pink fuzzy coat!  It was too funny!

Look what Charlotte did last night!  Amazing!  I took this picture this morning.....she spent ALL day securing it into place....She worked soo hard!  Late this afternoon she went around the corner into the sun and rested the rest of the evening...we'll see if she has #3 still to come!

Branson Ferris Wheel

We came back through Branson on our way home. Lots to do there. One of the things we did was to ride the huge Ferris Wheel there.

I am not a huge fan of heights. Richard took these pictures..you can sure see a long ways

I can barely look at this picture! Don't look down! Ha!

He was getting a picture of this to show Tyler.

It turned almost dark while we were on there!

The lights continually changed on it...

Buffalo River

We stopped by a small park on the Buffalo River....Such a pretty place! 

It looked like some sort of Spanish Moss in some of the trees on the bluff....didn't know it grew that far North

scenic bridge!

Such interesting driftwood!

Sock Monkey wanted to get on that rope swing! I actually started wading out there to put/tie him on it for a picture, but didn't want to get my shorts wet...would have been funny though!

Sure was a pretty place and the water was so nice. We are sure this is a very busy place during the Summer!

Fifth Principal Meridian

We stopped by this place on our trip...The Fifth Principal Meridian...

Sock Monkey said it was in a swamp!

Loved getting a picture of this owl!

This park was nicely done....lots of informative signs and a well-constructed walkway across to swamp to the monument.

Sock Monkey was impressed

Here  it is! I am married to a land surveyor and he thought this was pretty neat....

It was so quiet down in the swamp...we could hear the Water Tupelo berry things falling into the water...neat place

Monkey praising the monument

Frog we saw once we got back to the parking lot..

I think these were the Southern version of our Surprise Lillies

We saw a Cottonmouth on the road..he didn't move either...just laid there!

This was a neat place and I am glad we went. We are also planning on visiting the Sixth Principal Meridian! Which means we'll head on out farther West too and visit our Nebraska people!