Lovely pictures. Yes, does look very peaceful. Thanks for sharing it.

Today my WW is all about the THE MEN IN MY LIFE Enjoy :-)

What really neat pics!!!

*hear* the waterfall…… :)

Very nice… the first pic looks like the water’s falling on the person!

Everybody – I took these in my home state of Arkansas, at a place called Tea Kettle Falls. Seeing this area requires a hike, either on foot or by horse, and the drive to get to the “trailhead” is over a washed-out dirt road.

In other words, usually we had the place to ourselves. These horse riders were an interesting change for us, and provided some neat photographic opportunities (horses crossing a clear-running stream, etc. — no, not the trickle above the falls).

What you can’t see (I’ll have to cover this area in another post with more pics) is that the water goes down that shoot into a small bowl-shaped area and then shoots out a hole in the rock. Did everybody notice that my hiking buddy built a little dam and then when he broke it I took a pic of the water rushing out? A second look should reveal the difference in the falls.

I don’t think the horse allowed the guy to guide him under the falls, but they got pretty close.

TOP:

“Hey Clive…”

“Yeah, Earl?”

“Best stick t’the trail. I wouldn’a get too close to them rocks if I’s you.”

“And why’s that Ear….. *splutter, cough, gasp!*… What the…!!”

“Cuz god likes to pee on folk ’round here.”

Arkansas, huh? Who’d have thunk it–my mother lived there for years and she only showed me the Bingo hall–honestly! Happy WW

Is there gold in them thar hills?

I feel such chagrin. What? I do…. Why would you assume I’m just pretending? ;)

Yeah, it seems perfectly clear now…but in my defense, I didn’t realize that we’re looking at the same waterfall. And I didn’t realize that the hands were building the dam. Given these two misses…the story didn’t make much sense.

Anyway, sorry I let you down.

Wow those are lovely.

Hi! Just read what you wrote on my blog…
“Please, consider changing your theme so that it doesn’t put black text on a dark brown background. I can barely read it. It probably would be much better on my CRT vs. my laptop screen, but just sayin’. ”

That’s strange…I wonder if it just wasn’t completely loaded up yet on your screen? I don’t have black on a dark brown background…there should be orange trim with white background behind the black writing. The brown background is behind everything, but all black writing is on white so that it is easy to read. At least that’s how it appears to me on my screen! LOL You’re the first to mention it- I hope it isn’t showing up that way to everyone.

Hey, I’m a Wordless Wednesday person doing a drive-by, and perhaps your blog is too deep for us? You are a systems engineer….well that explains it. Nice pictures though and looked like it was a great time. Just ribbing you a bit, so don’t take me serious. Nobody else does. Happy WW. :)

Uh, it’s just like she said from here, too, babe. Don’t know what’s wrong with your computer! Did you get enough sleep last night?

Hmmm….I looked at this the other night, and I knew quickly that the water was being blocked in a “before and after’ type of picture.

However, I misread the situation. I thought you got there and there was a natural blockage that might have been the result of a hard rain that lodged debris against a larger rock, and blocked the stream. Then when it was cleared, it allowed the water to continue down to the falls.

I didn’t realize that it was done manually in an attempt to increase the flow over the falls for a brief moment in time.

Pretty clever trick Grasshoppa.

Mark…have you posted pictures of my favorite waterfall? The one that is unique…and required some interesting teamwork photography to get?

That one would be a really good one to post and explain on a wordless Wednesday after everyone posted their comments. But…regardless of the great Photography ideas, it can’t compare with being there.