Weekly Grist Gallery, December 12, 2010

Life in the hill country of Arkansas

My good friends Barry Noll and Barbara Freeman recently acquired a new home eight miles or so east of Rogers, Arkansas in the Runnymede neighborhood on Beaver Lake. They requested my services to record the domicle and I was pleased to accomodate their wishes. Barry and I did a quick trip to the homesite and in effect did a drive-by shooting and beat a hasty retreat back to LA (lower Arkansas)

Since there may be some lingering misconceptions of life in the hills of northern Arkansas, we are taking a longer look.

 
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    When you travel from LA to NWA, you pass through a tunnel. Barry Noll my friend was driving, so I had the first opportunity ever to shoot the tunnel. The windshield was still a bit grungy from the thunderstorm we had driven through earlier, but the shot still says what it needs to say.
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    My good friend Barry Noll at the wheel of the pickup which turned over 240,000 miles on this trip.
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    The new Noll-Freeman home in the Runnymede nieghborhood east of Rogers, Arkansas.
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    The great room and adjacent kitchen feature tall ceilings which create a sense of outdoor openess, safe from Mother Nature's nasty climatic mood swings.
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    The kitchen with the dining room in the background
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    Looking at the entrance to to great room from the back of the room. The dining room shows to the left.
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    The master bedroom, fronting on the back deck.
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    The master bath.
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    The deck in the back of the house.
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    The neighborhood and Beaver Lake in the background.
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    The energy-efficient structure uses a sandwich construction to keep Mother Nature's climatic mood swings at bay.
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    Barry Noll showing off the construction sample.
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    This lone tree at Cornerstone, Arkansas continues to bug me. I want to know the story behind a lone tree left standing in a big field. I continue to pursue the information. See more on Cornerstone here and here.

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