Hello All,

We are on a small trip up into Arkansas and over to Memphis.

We spent the first night away at Wright Patman Lake, just west of Texarkana. We stayed at Piney Point Campground, which is in a very deep, dark pine forest right at the lake side. And then we traveled on to the Hickory Creek Campground on Beaver Lake just outside of Fayetteville, Arkansas, where we visited our friends Lucy and BJ and took in a half day at the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. (BTW, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is a gift from the Walton Family - of Walmart Fame - so thank you for shopping at Walmart.)



Mike at our campsite at Piney Point Campground

 Fisherman at sunset on Wright Patman Lake

 Sunrise at Beaver Lake - with a Great Blue Heron and Ducks in the morning mist.

 Silver Tree at the entrance of Crystal Bridges

 The entrance pavilion for the Bachman-Wilson House

 BJ, Dennis and Lucy at the entrance pavilion for the Bachman-Wilson House

 Bachman-Wilson House (by Frank Lloyd Wright) at Crystal Bridges

 Red Spotted Admiral Butterfly at Crystal Bridges

"Maman" (French for Mother) by Louise Bourgeois (who was 88 when she made this) - in the Crystal Bridges entrance courtyard.

Keith Haring Sculpture in Crystal Bridges Courtyard

 Lucy, Mike and BJ with Keith Haring Sculpture

 The Great Hall at Crystal Bridges

And there was an outdoor exhibition of glass art works by Dale Chihuly along the forest trails adjacent to the museum buildings.

Since some of my fondest childhood memories come from our wood and canvas canoe when we lived on a lake in the pine forests of New Jersey, this came to represent a whole boatload of memories for me. (Dennis)