In the Neighborhood

I walked out around 9:30 A.M. yesterday and saw the two deer across the street.  The buck looked at me and went back to eating.  I went in, got the camera, and took several pictures.  We have doe's and their fawn's around all the time but this is the first buck I have seen here in the neighborhood.

Nimrod Dam - Arkansas Scenic Highway 7

Dam information.

It has been very dry and you can see how low the lake is looking at the back of the dam.

There is still water being released but even the rive looks low.

Fall color is beginning to show. 

I received a card telling me the engraving and vases had been completed on the headstone to my Mother and Father's graves.  I drove down to check everything out and put flowers in the vases.  I left the Inter-State at Russelville and followed Arkansas Highway 7 through Hot Springs and Arkadelphia.  7 goes through the heart of Hot Springs and the downtown was full of tourists.  On the way back I pulled off to see Nimrod Dam.  There is a lovely campground below the dam.  I did wish for the RV to stop and spend the night.  This part of Arkansas 7 goes through the Ouachita Mountains.

Botanical Garden of the Ozarks - Butterfly Pavilion

I visited the Garden yesterday, Oct. 4, 2011, to see the new Butterfly Pavilion.  It is a small screened in enclosure shaped like a butterfly and located at the rear of the Gardens.  Here are pictures of the Pavilion and some of the butterflies found in the Pavilion and throughout the Garden.  In spite of the hot and dry weather this summer the Garden looked beautiful.  Visit if you have a chance.

There were several kinds of  insects feasting on the flowers.

One of the butterflies.

Another butterfly

Entrance walk to the Butterfly Pavilion

The Butterfly Pavilion and the volunteer enjoying the wonderful weather

Volunteer and a newly hatched butterfly.  It was still wet and not flying.

Another butterfly picture.

And still another

And another.  The garden was full of butterflies.

This one spent the entire time I was in the Pavilion trying to escape.

Too many opportunities for photos to pass up.  I just kept snapping.

I was going for the butterfly but the camera focused on the insect in the foreground.

Now it is focused on the butterfly and in insect is out of focus.