Few pictures from today... more to come later

** As of Thursday, August 4th-- A large grass fire burned 111 buildings at the unoccupied, historic Chaffee Hospital in the Fort Chaffee area.

http://www.4029tv.com/news/28760506/detail.html#ixzz1UJHh8KOs **

We went to Fort Chaffee today to explore and take pictures... here's a couple of the more memorable ones.....

History captured

More pictures from around Fort Smith, AR

Concrete Angel

Tree in graveyard

Lantern at Miss Laura's - a restored former bordello here in Fort Smith

Sitting room at Miss Laura's

Sitting room at Miss Laura's

Coat rack at Miss Laura's

Butterfly

desk at the Commissary at the National Historic Site by Judge Parker's Museum

Museum at historic site

Carousel - and laundry

Steam Engine at the Trolley Museum

Gauges in Steam Engine

Caboose at the Trolley Museum

Graveyard pictures

I decided to take my new camera for a test run at a graveyard in town I had never been too.

I tweaked the brightness and dullness of some of the pictures, as well as added either antiquing or making them black and white, but other than that, nothing else was done- editing wise.

It's been 12 days since my birthday...

Things change so quickly. We began looking at moving, I went from full time to part time, I got laid off. Literally- in less than 12 days.

Things were so good 12 days ago.

The clinic is in trouble now.

We put so much of ourselves into it- so much into our work and our clients and patients... and it's gone. Ripped out from under us because someone decided we weren't what they wanted-- that we didn't look like we should.

I hope Karma comes through this time.

Friday night thoughts

Things are getting strange at work. I got a call from our vet, cutting my hours from 40+ to 34-37 a week. It's not that much, but J can't find work around this town either, so every little bit matters. We have started to look close, but out of the town. We'd have to move. I am finally OK with that. It's not Seattle or Phoenix, but it's not here.