An Unlucky Search for Fall Colors

While the fall colors around the Buffalo River were good this year, there really hasn't been good color in the rest of the state. It's been a weird autumn so far. A lot of trees are still green, while others have already lost their leaves. And then a bunch are just brown and burned-out looking after the dry summer.

I went to the Delta area around Keo and Scott in search of colors, but didn't see much. I went by my favorite little oxbow lake, but the tupelo trees were still mostly greenish.



But luckily there's lots of other things to point the camera at out there. So I made a quick stop at these silos, sitting under some dark storm clouds.



And then this old barn in Scott:



The wooden boards of the barn are weathered and faded, the metal roof is rusted and bent. It looks like part of it burned at one point, there are black scorch marks on one side. But the old barn is still stubbornly standing.







Nailed to the side of the barn was this old basketball hoop. Wonder how many years have passed since someone played a game here?



There was some life in the barn. There were some critters living inside, and some vines covered the front. There were even some flowers blooming, which made an interesting contrast against the aged and battered wood of the barn.



After that I drove back to Little Rock. I made it to downtown and there was a massive traffic jam on the freeway thanks to the I-30 bridge construction. I detoured and then made one last stop at another old building, this one also covered with vines.