Wow. Sorry about that guys. I apologize. It seems like it has been forever since we last did this. So much has happened. Unfortunately catch-up posts are never fun, but I promise another post after this weekend.

1st thing's first. I went back down to Gurdon to do some more research. This photo was taken at 2:10 AM. It was a full moon night so it was bright enough to see where to walk without flashlights, but it wasn't quite as bright as the picture lets on. I was taking some very slow shutter shots, but I did find a possible explanation for the light. Notice how the trees overhang to form balls of light that become an optical illusion that look brighter than the actual sky. Now the lights we saw this night were different and nowhere near as bright as the time before so even if this was the cause, I still would like more evidence. Plus, what is that mysterious ghostly figure right below the balls of light. It shows up in all of my pictures . Hmm. . . .

Then, somewhere between the Gurdon trip and Halloween, I went to my cousin's wedding and got sick as a dog. Some sort of virus was going around and it knocked me down for the count. I lost 4 days of work to that thing. I actually ended up in the Hospital after fighting it for a whole day. I couldn't hold any fluids in. I was dehydrated and worsening as the day went on. The Hospital pumped a liter into me, gave me some nausea medicine and 3 days later I could drive without the whole world spinning. Speaking of Halloween, I carved pretty much the best pumpkin in the world this year. You know you're jealous. If you can't make it all out, here's what it is: It's an evil scare crow (think the People of the Corn) with a blackbird resting on his arm in a field of corn that is on fire. There is an eerie moon with a cloud rolling in front of it int the background with a rolling hill that has a mushroom cloud exploding a nearby town (the mushroomy part kind of fell out before I took the picture).
That brings us all the way up to last weekend where I went hiking along the Ouachita Trail near Lake Sylvia. Actually, we walked across Lake Sylvia, it has been that dry. The hike was great though. We hiked about 12 miles, saw a handful of deer in one spot, lots of squirrels and about 14 people along the way. I'll leave you with some pictures of the hike.

