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We stumbled across a river on the road between Fort Smith and Texarkana, and I pulled over for a few quick pictures. There was an abandoned gas station in front of it, and across the road was a building that looked more like a house, or an insurance building, but that had a sign that read "Mid-Way Park Restaurant". I don't know for sure, but I suspect that *this* was the park, where someone had cleared out a wide spot beside the road, between the road and the river. There were no facilities at all - no tables or benches - just a place with rough access to a wild river.. Just the sort of thing I love..

Doesn't she look cute?

While we were in Iowa for Travis' graduation ceremony as a firefighter, we took this photo that was intended to be 'like' a photo that Cynthia had seen somewhere in a magazine or online. The original was set in a very different place, but the feeling is hopefully the same.

Personally I like this one more, if only because pictures of loved ones mean so much more than just great imagery. This one, of the young couple standing together in a snowy corn field in Iowa is my personal favorite of many similar images we shot that day. She chose another, but the differences are miniscule..

We had to shoot extremely quickly, as it was about 28 degrees and the wind was really whipping. And I needed to be rather far away to get the effect that I wanted with the gear that I have. With the distance and the fact that the wind carried away any attempt at verbal communication, we just shot what we could get, and leapt back into the car before we froze, and we really needed someone to rescue us all.

I'm posting this to Slider Sunday, in part to state what everyone else probably already knows - Picnik is shutting down. I've used Picnik lots of times to repair some of the damage that uploading does to pictures, and to make up for some editing errors that I missed before uploading. The bad news is that they are shutting down, The good news is that until they do, all of their "Premium" tools are available for free!

Just thought a bunch of 'sliders' like us would like to know!

This is the fire station where Travis is assigned as a "paid volunteer firefighter in West Des Moines, Iowa. Looks like it's brand new, and state of the art.

fire dogs on duty!

As you can see, this place is spacious, clean and modern..