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Architecture of the Ozarks

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Spring Street (or thereabouts…)
wordless wednesday
Eureka Springs Arkansas
upper spring
Abandoned building, Eureka Springs, Ar
storefront shell
Grotto, Eureka Springs, Ar
grotto
Above Spring Street, Eureka Springs, Ar
along hiking path
near Spring Street, Eureka Springs, Ar
moss
Spring Street, Eureka Springs, Ar
face in stone wall

“…just close your eyes and breathe softly through your nose; you will hear the whispered message, for all landscapes ask the same question in the same whisper. ‘I am watching you — are you watching yourself in me?’― Lawrence Durrell, Spirit Of Place: Letters And Essays On Travel

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Grace Grits and Gardening
Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

 

World’s Largest Spruce Tree

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Near Lake Quinault on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula lives the world’s largest spruce tree. Estimated to be around 1,000 years old and with a 58+ foot circumference, he’s a beast.

Following one of the must-do rules of vacation (always stop when in close proximity to the largest anything), we paid him a visit during our drive along the Oregon Coast.

The pictures do not do him justice…

talya

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. –― Vera Nazarian

Food. Farm. Garden. Life.

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