Month: February 2014

Arkansas Photography Pinnacle Mountain snow

The Snow

By on Sunday, February 9, 2014

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It’s been an unusually cold winter in Little Rock. We got a decent snowfall on Friday and I ventured out Saturday afternoon to see what the country looked like with a blanket of white. I headed west of town and wound up at Pinnacle Mountain State Park. Mt. Pinnacle was snow capped just like Pike’s Peak. Well, kinda like Pike’s Peak.

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The Maumelle River was frozen. I couldn’t figure out what those weird holes in the slush/ice were. They were scattered all about and not just under the cypress trees.

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Dinosaur tracks. I should’ve included a quarter in the photo to show scale. These tracks were huge, about 8 inches long.

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Landscape Outdoor fun Ozarks

The Fog

By on Monday, February 3, 2014

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On Saturday we took off on one of our daylong drives and found ourselves high in the Ozarks in Pope County. Once we hit a certain elevation – about 1,800 feet – we were inside the clouds. Thick, wet clouds. The fog was thick that I got pretty freaked out driving on serpentine Highway 7. You couldn’t see the oncoming vehicles until they were about 60 feet away. I just kept imagining a big-ass truck appearing out of the fog across the centerline in my lane.

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We crossed over Pilot Mountain on our way home and I stopped a few times to get some snaps of the fog.

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