It snowed again on Friday and I went out to Pinnacle Mountain to take some photos of it.
Somehow a bunch of giant bald cypress trees escaped the ax along the Little Maumelle River. Like most of Arkansas, the Pinnacle Mountain area was cut over (probably more than once) in the last 150 years or so. These trees are on Arkansas’ Historic Trees list. From the historic trees website:
Arkansas core-dated 21 Bald Cypress trees in 1985. The trees were dated within ranges of 1531 to 1889, plus or minus 30-50 years. The trees are hollow and are likely to be more than 100 years older than the cores indicate.
I’ve shot two other historic trees, and I keep meaning to begin a quest to visit all of them.
The old Highway 300 bridge.