Happy Wednesday All, Thursday of my Arkansas Adventure we hung out at in-law's house and Friday we headed back home. There are some awesome things about the trip that I need to note. For one thing, at the end of the block was this street sign...and yes, I did "Walk down to..."   My in-laws have some beautiful roses growing in their garden, so I made sure to get some pictures of that. Particularly of a gorgeous pink rose... I hope you enjoyed this taste of my Arkansas Adventure! We had a good time. Please note:  I will be making some appearances on other blogs. Two dates are set, but the others are not. Watch the margin of my blog for further info.  Have A Whimsically Wonderful Wednesday!

Happy Tuesday All, My adventures in Arkansas continued on Wednesday with a trip to the mall so that offspring could play on the playground, and then to the  Botanical Gardens . There were so many different types of gardens. They had these pretty little stone signs: In the Children's Garden, there was this awesome train called Reading Railroad. Made my husband and I think of the game, Monopoly. But, the train was eye-catching both as a writer and a reader...can you guess why?   In one garden (I think the Japanese Garden), there was this fountain in the shape of a Lotus Blossom, but I thought it also looked like a banana. (Yes, that's me in the photo):    Those tall, purple flowers you see to the right were everywhere in the garden. I think they're Foxglove? Anyway, they were pretty. There were areas where it looked really pretty with all the trees around. I don't know what expression I'm making--I guess I wasn't completely ready f...

Happy Monday All, Hope everyone had a great weekend! As I posted over the weekend, last week I was up in Arkansas visiting my in-laws. I thought I'd use this week to document the trip (I took a TON of pictures!) So Monday in Arkansas we didn't do too much. We had traveled all day on Sunday, so we took it easy. Tuesday we went to the Pea Ridge National Park where some of the Civil War was fought and we also headed into Eureka Springs. Pea Ridge had a self-guided driving tour that was 7 miles long, and a visitors center. At the visitors' center we saw several exhibits, such as this cannon:    Along the driving tour there were other cannons marking battle grounds and lines where both the Union and Rebel soldiers lined up.  The open spaces of the battle grounds gave me an eerie feeling...like I could sense the fighting that went on there. It's really something. The scenery is gorgeous now, but I can imagine it was incredibly bloody back then.    ...