Downtown Snow

After a few days of below-freezing temperatures, it finally warmed up enough for all of the massive amounts of snow to start melting. When enough of it had melted to allow my little car to traverse our hilly street, I headed out to take a few pictures downtown. The first stop that night was at MacArthur Park and the old Little Rock Arsenal Building.



The Arsenal Building was built in 1840 and is one of the oldest buildings in the city.





The old Arsenal Building is now home to the Arkansas Museum of Military History. It shares MacArthur Park with the newly rebranded Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, which is currently undergoing a massive restoration. The construction site looked like it had been busy, even with all of the recent snows.



I headed back to the car and then drove around downtown, eventually parking along Second Street by the US Bankruptcy Courthouse. The courthouse was built in 1881 and originally served as Little Rock's courthouse and post office.



I walked over to the Old State House, which is also one of the oldest buildings in the city (it dates back to the 1830s). Although a lot of the snow had already melted, there was still a nice carpet of snow coating the grounds of the museum.





I slid a little in the snow and ice that remained on the sidewalk in front of the Old State House, which made it interesting to set up a tripod.



Around this time it began raining. Since I forgot an umbrella and it was also starting to get late, I decided to head home. As I got closer to home, the falling rain mixed with the snow on the ground and created a neat but eerie fog that hung low to the ground.