What a week we've had! On Tuesday evening we attended the Camera Club. They announced that Tim Ernst was going to be in The Village for the Audubon meeting on Friday, so we planned on attending that.

Tim Ernst is an Arkansas born and bred photographer, who just took his first out of country trip to Iceland to film in the back country for 2 very intensive weeks. The presentation of those slides, set to Icelandic music, plus his latest coffee table book on Arkansas in Autumn was magnificent to view!  The presentation was beyond our wildest dreams. It started the fires burning.

This morning, we got up early to attend one of the three trail walks offered in The Village. We were blessed to have a great guide, an Audubon member, lead us on our hike. And to make it even more fun, one of the newspaper writers from The Village Voice was on our trip to report.

This is the Trail beginning and ending.  I loved the colorful trees.

This is a picture of the snake's head with his mouth wide open.  His body is in the photo below this one.

After the trail walk we went into "town" to the acquarium store, The Wild Bird Center, then back to The Village to attend a "fest" of sorts at The Coronodo Center hosted by Heifer International.