Follow the signs home

Building our home in a rural area, where the streets have not been named, we were allowed to pick our own street names to comply with the 911 Emergency Response protocol. Some of our initial choices were already taken, but we had been asked to choose several options.
We had to come up with two names, one for the road coming off the last-named main road, and then the road back to our house.
Dragonfly Trail: Dragonflies are prominent in most areas where there is water (and fishing) and they are also a common theme in Craftsman/Arts & Craft style homes/design, which ours is.
Trout Lily Lane: The trout lily is a flower we have admired for a long time - it arises from the leaf-covered ground in the woods in springtime and is common in Arkansas. The name apparently came from the foliage of dark-green mottled leaves that resemble the flank of a brook trout - and is topped by intricate yellow flowers that decorate the forest floor. A passion for trout and for the forest, and the prevalence of these flowers on our acreage, presented a perfect choice for the name of our physical address.

 First turn

Our physical address will be on this lane

Annual Winter Outing with the "Cabin Group"

As we have done every February for the past umpteen years, we recently had an outing with our great friends from Northwest Arkansas - all of us former soccer parent "road warriors".  This year we gathered at a lodge somewhere in the woods off state highway 7, south of Jasper.  Although I didn't get to participate much in the festivities due to recent hernia surgery, and an inopportune stomach bug, it was so good to spend time with our good friends - regrettably, we don't get together enough in my opinion.  Anyway, everyone had a great time as usual and we are already looking forward to our next annual get-together - hopefully we can rally again long before next February.