Eureka Springs

Finally decided to get my laptop out. I'm at Atlanta Bread in Rogers, Arkansas. Good lord! this area has grown. Rogers/Springdale/Fayetteville .... hardly recognized it.

Spent a couple days and a night in Eureka. I've been coming to Eureka Springs since the 60s. So much change and yet so much stays the same.

I'm not really in the mood to chat this morning. So much to say - much indecision that I'm afraid it would be rambling -- haha --even more than usual.

I'm very much into figuring out a lot of thises and thats.... it's confusing and emotional and fun and enlightening and hurtful and whatever. I need to go through this.

In the meantime.... lots of beautiful stuff to experience and see. I do love Arkansas. So very pretty. The conservatives keep me amused ... ha ha ... there are enclaves of not Bible Belt thinkers... which is necessary to maintain said sense of humor.

The woods and I go way back. I can really get close to 'my' God .... being surrounded by trees and filtered sunlight. This is a chapel in the woods. Eureka Springs has a Passion Play ... y'all can google if y'want. I've been to where it takes place. A replica of Jerusalem. Extremely interesting.

Truly awesome. I sat for quite a while and thanked God and the Universe. Said hello to a WGS member's older, too young sister who had died and is buried in Eureka .... 

It's hard for me to quiet my mind. I have that monkey mind.... but I managed several moments of meditation ... so peaceful and beautiful.

On the walk to the Chapel ... are Arkansas' State flower - The Dogwood... I'm sure most know the tale of the Dogwood... at any rate... it's gorgeous. Springtime is moving along but, as you can see in the above pictures, the deciduous trees are still deciduousing... ;)

 There are more pictures of Eureka Springs and the beautiful Highway 23 I took from Paris --- where I had my birthday lunch! ha haaa

I will probably do another post about the area... right now, I just wanted to say hello and post these pictures.

I don't know where I'm heading. Can't quite make up my mind. Kinda got a hankering to go up to Wyoming and Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons....

Always wanted to go there... I've been to most states except up in the upper midwest. Probably need to do that.


West has the highest gas prices. Nifty map I found that tells me the areas of high gas.

So much to see and/or do ... I'm getting that overwhelmed ADD thing I do ... sigh

Peculiar mood this morning.

Here's a hitchhiker I picked up leaving the chapel... he was awfully cute.... His little eyes were looking right at me... caught so elegantly by my camera... sigh --- again, you can see that Spring is a springing ;) -- Dogwoods are everywhere underneath all the other stuff... so hard to capture while driving!

And look at ol Homer... look at what he picked up!

Little yellow/green clouds puffing up all over Homer... amazing to see this --- While I was parked, I saw these little yellow puffs landing on the windshield then realized --- omg.... pollen in clouds! I've never seen that. Surprisingly, my allergies are okay. It's the Fall when whatever it is really attacks my sinuses... Springtime just causes a bit of eye itching.

Well? I'll post some Eureka city pictures at some point... I need to decide what I'ma gonna do while I have the big screen on my laptop... hard to really get the 'big' picture of maps and routes on my iPhone.... but I will tell you ! what a hoot! that Siri is... you just hold the button thing down... up pops Siri and asks what she can help me with.... ice cream! I say... and she displays within seconds --- lots of ice cream places. Andy's custard was just around the corner! I tell ya...