Another Quickie, this time from Mena

"No Way Out"

"<- Death" read the sign

Arkansas, the Natural State

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.