July 17, 2006

Driving Home

Country Roads, take me home... County road 264 west near Cave Springs Arkansas

I had to work again this saturday... I well and truly hate it as I would much rather be in my home taking care of things...But one thing I try to do is to use the time that I have after work to have an adventure.

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Down by the River side. This stream actually runs right in front of the Lakeview Southern Baptist Church in Highfill Arkansas. The stream has bee diverted a few feet and through a culvert under the tiny parking lot and the highway dumping into a stream bed accross the road. I though that is was very interesting. I stood on the church steps to take the shot
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Its amzing the openess and the expance of this land...Manytimes I just stand and look at it, this child of the closed in city

Fields of Gold Hay fields ready for the years first cut. This was taken near Vaugn, Arkansas, by the Regional Airport. Once all ranch land like this, farms are being bought up and subdivided like crazy. Every time I drive through here there are more houses.


People dispare of the increase in people I am finding that I feel the same. I hope that we can preserve the life that once was here
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The Emerald Land. The grass is a brilliant green after cutting... It has turned golden again

I find myself praying on these journeys. It is a hard daily grind day in and day out at thisplace, but having the time to just meander along the roadside heals my soul. I put a bit of music on sometimes or just listen to the sound of the roadway under neath.

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A beautiful Victorian house up for auction in Vaugan Arkansas. I drove past it and felt the tug to turn around and go back and preserve the house on film I am sure that it and the surrounding farmland will be bulldozed up for yet another McMansion subdivision

I am so enchanted by the beauty of this place, it never seems to fail to delight me and I indulge myself often in the contemplation of the nature around me... Weither it is as I take my daily walks or as I drive through the countryside I see that God has dne all things well and life is good