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Offline Ferguson

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Sunday Morning Walk
« on: January 29, 2012, 08:48:09 AM »
The wife and I made a little stroll around this morning in the cool January air



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Re: Sunday Morning Walk
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2012, 08:53:05 AM »
Wow, David...is that old mill your house?  That is something!

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Re: Sunday Morning Walk
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2012, 08:58:52 AM »
No, that is the old red mill at Alley Spring. We got out this morning to get some sunrise and fog pictures and went to Alley Spring to get some different angle winter shots. That is how I get some of my ideas for the artwork on the calls.

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Re: Sunday Morning Walk
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2012, 08:59:48 AM »
Wow, David...is that old mill your house?  That is something!

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 looks like a nice fishing hole.. ;D

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Re: Sunday Morning Walk
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2012, 09:04:01 AM »
Man, I love that Mill House picture David--great way to get inspired.

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Re: Sunday Morning Walk
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2012, 09:09:48 AM »
This is overlooking the upper Jacks Fork River facing south. There were an old farm or two in those bottoms before the National Park took it all over. Still a few old cedar post scattered out up and down the river but not to many.

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Re: Sunday Morning Walk
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2012, 09:20:39 AM »
This is the main spring hole that runs the mill when the early settlers gathered to grind their grain. This was the center of civilization during those early times.



This is just another picture we took this morning. I can imagine a bird on the roost in one of these tree's. That may just show up on a call someday.



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Re: Sunday Morning Walk
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2012, 09:37:42 AM »
God's country. Beautiful pics David. When you get back from Nationals I sure need to come back up there and see some of those places.

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Re: Sunday Morning Walk
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2012, 10:28:40 AM »
david, was that one of the places you took porter and I. Thats looks familiar

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Re: Sunday Morning Walk
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2012, 10:37:10 AM »
Bruce,

I don't remember for sure but we probably went through there. Did we go to camp or towards it. Camp is up the river 6 or 7 miles.

Rickey when you come back we'll go on a road trip and sight see a bit.
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Re: Sunday Morning Walk
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2012, 10:39:49 AM »
You took us to a mill that was 2 or three stories. We talked to a park worker when we went in. I remember all the great old pictures they had from the old days.

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Re: Sunday Morning Walk
« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2012, 10:46:41 AM »
yep that's was it.
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Re: Sunday Morning Walk
« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2012, 10:47:55 AM »
its a beautiful place for sure *cool*

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Re: Sunday Morning Walk
« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2012, 06:51:17 PM »
great looking counrty to call home David

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Re: Sunday Morning Walk
« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2012, 07:45:42 PM »
Nice pictures David. As you probably remember, I lead a crew in restoring the mill back in 90-91. Cecil Fry and myself also reroofed it in about 1976. At the same time we had to make a new lifting wheel for the control gate. It is run by a turbine instead of a water wheel.

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