{"id":396,"date":"2008-11-04T15:44:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T21:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dondailey.wordpress.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2008-11-04T15:44:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T21:44:03","slug":"fallen-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/04\/fallen-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallen Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dondailey.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/dsc_2349blog.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[396]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dondailey.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/dsc_2349blog.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_2349blog\" title=\"dsc_2349blog\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-534\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had planned to go for a drive in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/buff\/\">Buffalo River<\/a> area Sunday to see the leaves, but Abby got sick and Gina felt a 103 degree fever was not conducive to viewing fall foliage. Gina cut me loose for the afternoon and I headed out by myself.<\/p>\n<p>I drove to Ponca and bought a map of the hiking trails in the western part of the national river park. Parking at the Ponca access to the river, I took off east on the Old River Road Trail, which I had never been on before. The scenery in he Buffalo River bottom is always nice, but the fall foliage seemed to be past peak down there. I bet the trees along the river in the top photo were afire in red and yellow a week ago. That would have made a better picture, of course.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dondailey.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/dsc_2378blog.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[396]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dondailey.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/dsc_2378blog.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_2378blog\" title=\"dsc_2378blog\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-536\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I passed a couple of nice bluffs in the mile or so I traveled on the trail.<\/p>\n<p>The map showed the trail curling back up a draw into some higher terrain and that&#8217;s where I wanted to go. Eventually I came out on a huge gravel bar and the trail petered out. If I had studied the map better, I would have noticed the little spur trail that led out along the river before ending. I had missed the fork in the trail and on the way back I discovered why. The sign is way back in the cane and is impossible to see if your headed east, unless you&#8217;re walking backward. And the trail fork itself is pretty faint. In addition, I didn&#8217;t know the trail split at all so I wasn&#8217;t watching for it. Let that be a warning to you if you head that way.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t really happy with any of the photos and I think I learned a lesson. I didn&#8217;t have much time before dark, and I was intent on covering ground to see as much as possible. Thinking back on it, I could have stopped in any one of dozens of areas and really searched for things to photograph. Instead, I just did drive-bys as I cruised through the woods going nowhere. A day earlier, my Dad and I watched the sunrise from one spot overlooking the Kings River and I got several shots I liked. We didn&#8217;t move out of about a 500-square-foot area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dondailey.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/dsc_2369blog.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[396]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dondailey.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/dsc_2369blog.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_2369blog\" title=\"dsc_2369blog\" width=\"450\" height=\"677\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-535\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had planned to go for a drive in the Buffalo River area Sunday to see the leaves, but Abby got sick and Gina felt a 103 degree fever was not conducive to viewing fall foliage. Gina cut me loose for the afternoon and I headed out by myself. I drove to Ponca and bought &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,25,30,37],"tags":[52,174,178],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arkansas","category-buffalo-national-river","category-hiking","category-landscape","category-photography","tag-buffalo-river","tag-fall-foliage","tag-hiking","entry entry-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}