Devil’s Den State Park, Arkansas

March 1, 2008 at 12.51pm CST; Pentax K10D; Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250); Aperture: f/9.5; Focal Length: 55 mm; ISO Speed: 100

Canyonlands National Park

September 23, 2007 at 12.13pm MDT; Pentax K10D; Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250); Aperture: f/9.5; Focal Length: 50 mm; ISO Speed: 100

Arches National Park

September 24, 2007 at 10.43am MDT; Pentax K10D; Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/180); Aperture: f/9.5; Focal Length: 55 mm; ISO Speed: 100

Teton Mountains

Grand Teton National park, Wyoming

September 19, 2007 at 9.21am MDT; Pentax K10D; Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/180); Aperture: f/8; Focal Length: 35 mm; ISO Speed: 100

Park Ranger with Youth

New Visitor Center at Moose, Wyoming
Grand Teton National Park

September 19, 2007 at 8.38am MDT; Pentax K10D; Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30); Aperture: f/3.5; Focal Length: 18 mm;
ISO Speed: 400

Moose lying down in brush just off short trail
between Maude Noble’s cabin and Menor’s Ferry,
Grand Teton National Park.

This bull moose, along with a cow and a calf, was laying down just off a trail we were walking on. Karen spotted it, and thinking it would be a great picture, got my attention. When I saw it, I figured that we were way too close to it, even though it was laying down, so we left the trail and looped away from it to get back to the trail at a point further down where there was an old barn. As we got back to the trail we saw a young ranger gesturing to us to where she was standing, which was in the direction we were going anyway. The moose had apparently already been reported and, since they were in an area with frequent pedeatrian traffic, rangers just arrived to keep people away from the animals. Though the moose were obviously used to the presence of people, they are still wild animals… and they are big and can move very fast. As well, according to the ranger we, some boys had been throwing rocks at the moose the day before.

While we were there, the rangers strung a yellow plastic barrier tape — the kind you see at crime scenes in movies and TV shows — to keep the public at a safe distance from the moose.

This picture was taken from a window inside the old barn.

Naturally dried flowers at Canyonlands National Park

September 23, 2007 at 1.28pm MDT; Pentax K10D; Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250); Aperture: f/9.5; Focal Length: 55 mm;
ISO Speed: 100

I40 Eastbound Rest Area West of Alanreed, Texas

This charcoal grill is in a picnic shelter

September 27, 2007 at 11.20am CDT
Camera: Pentax K10D
Exposure: 0.022 sec (1/45)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Now there are two.

The second page I’ve completed since getting back to work developing content for Haw Creek is the page for Woolly Hollow State Park.

Woolly Hollow is a nice little state park in Faulkner County north of Conway and near Greenbriar. The centerpiece of the park is a 40 acre reservoir, Lake Bennett, constructed in the early 30s by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) as a watershed project built for scientific studies of the effect of run-off, silt and erosion control in a specific watershed. See my Woolly Hollow State Park web page for more information.

Administrivia details:

I’ve had the page on Haw Creek for quite some time in a different location. However, I’m moving all of my places and images pages and changing their format. I’ve decided to concentrate on optimizing the pages for search engines as well as adding new, accurate content. A lot of the content will be available in other places on the web, but, generally, not all on one site and, in many instances, the information is sketchy and often inaccurate. My intent is to provide useful and interesting material as well as valuable links that should be viable for a reasonable period of time.

Seven Hollows Trail, Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas

A nice hike

November 17, 2007 at 1.45pm CST
Camera: Pentax K10D
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/180)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 120 mm
ISO Speed: 100