Vacation: Morgan's MIll

Now we come to our last day on vacation and this picture was actually taken when I was driving home. This is Morgan's Mill outside of Hardy,AR. What most do not know is a battle was fought here in the Civil War. Stopping here is a must. The main creek is behind the mill, not what you see in front of it. In the past you could go into the mill, but someone got hurt and now they have it locked.

Norfork Lake: Dam Bait Shop

This is the Dam Bait Shop. Now hold on, I am not cussing. This is the Norfork Lake Dam Dam Bait Shop. If you do not get the joke watch the movie National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation. In the movie the characters are at the Hoover Dam and the character, Eddie, yells out do you have any dam bait.

Memorial Weekend Vacation: Fish Hatchery

Today we will visit the Norfork National Fish Hatchery Park located just below the dam. The picture above is to thank all the people and places who donated money to build the hatchery complex.

In side the main, only building, is where they hatch and keep the baby rainbow trout. Each of these concrete tanks holds thousands of new tiny fish. The water pumped into the tanks, both inside and outside, comes from the bottom of the lake to keep the fish at the right temperature. By the way the water is around 44F.

This is one of many outside tanks. When the trout get to be about hand size they are moved to one of these. They will stay here till the fish are about 18 months old.


Finally this is what you can see inside one of the outside tanks. Rainbow Trout.. In this particle tank these are adults and are about 1- 2 feet long. Well, hope you enjoyed a quick tour of the fish hatchery. See you tomorrow as I take you on another site seeing tour.

Memorial Day

This week I am going to step away from Memphis and show you a place some Memphians like to go during Memorial Weekend, on vacation.

Location: Norfolk Lake, Arkansas
Travel Time: Hours

In todays photo, this is the Norfork Lake Dam. This one dam keeps back all the water in the lake. People like to camp and fish below the dam. ON the other side is the lake and you can fish, boat, swim, swim. There are also islands out on the lake you can camp on.

monkey business

This photo was taken at the Memphis Zoo in the Primate Exhibit. There were students everywhere holding clipboards and taking notes. Apparently, these two kids were studying this ape. But by judging the way the ape is looking at them, it could seem the opposite way around. hehe.

hmmm. lunch!

Hhhhhmmmmm! Lasagna! I ate lunch yesterday with my parents at this nice Italian place called Carraba's. A bit pricey, but it sure is worth it. Before the waiter brought me my lasagna, I was given a bowl of some sort of spicy Italian chicken soup. Too bad I didn't think to take a photo of it. But it was tasty. I'm glad they gave me so much lasagna because there is enough to feed two people. Or at least to save some for lunch to eat the next day. Speaking of which....it's almost lunch time. **runs to fridge**

I love the warm weather and how it brings about new life. Yes it is another animal so I hope I am not boring you. Here we have a female duck laying on her eggs. Luckily she let me photograph her and I thanked her by giving her some bread. Hopefully she will be left in peace and we will see some baby ducks soon.

Something you don't see everyday.

Now this is something you do not see everyday. This little guy, a squirrel, was sitting on this red truck eating a pecan. I got within 4 feet of the animal before he climbed on the top of the cab of the truck. I guess he thought I was going to grab him. I looked in the bed of the truck and found his food source. This creature was stealing pecans out of a bucket the owner of the truck lift sitting in it. As soon as I got a good judging distance away, the squirrel climbed back down to his original perch and continued eating.

Happy Mother's Day

Hope you all had a good lunch like I did. I took my wife out and ate pasta. Just to temp you all into hunger, this is a picture of my plate. So have a wonder Happy Mother's Day....

River Sunset

This is what the sunset looks like atop Memphis downtown. To bad the bridge did not have its lights on at the time.