Saturday Jaunt
Jim and I got up bright and early this morning and took a ride out to Mama’s Log House quilt shop, which you can read about over on my sewing blog. Afterwards, on the way back home, we saw a sign pointing towards “Blue Mountain Dam”. We always enjoy seeing a dam, so we decided to go check it out.
It wasn’t overly impressive, but we enjoyed it nevertheless… and it was nice and quiet after the throng of people at the quilt shop!
The lake was small but pretty. I just had the handheld camera, and it doesn’t do ultra-wide shots like my big Canon. Nor do I have a clue how to use the manual settings on it, it’s Jim’s camera!
The spillway.
A cool rock that slid eons ago.
We headed back towards Russellville, stopped in Dardanelle for lunch, and decided to see what shops have survived the economy on the town’s little main street….
Lo and behold, the pièce de résistance…
!!! Little bit of a flamingo fetish there huh? I think they need an RV!
I think perhaps the owner of the “flamingo” house did NOT put them there. There is a company that will do this for you (in the middle of the night) and the home owner wakes to a yard full of (in this instance) flamingoes (or crows or headstones, or some other appropriate memento of the occasion). This could be a birthday, anniversary, etc. I woke up to a yard of flamingoes on my 50th wedding anniversary – and the whole community enjoyed the big sign that went along with them.
Cool flamingos. My sister thinks they are the most tacky thing in the world. I’ll have to see if there is a company in my area that does this. I see a pink birthday in her future.
Hubby and I do mini road trips. We have to go to point A but we’ll detour around to point B to walk, geocache, take pics, etc.
I have a sister-in-law that absolutely hates flamingos also. She woke up on her 40th birthday to 40 of them in her yard compliments of my husband. But he really enjoyed sneaking out at midnight and putting them there.
LOVE the flamingos! Funny you went to Blue Mountain Dam, CJ! We live below the Blue Mountains and my post today was about the dam below the Blues!!
Cheers!