After Hours Tourists ...

After a long day of showing jewelry, ceramics, paintings, drawings, and photography at the Old Timer's Day Festival, we still made time to do a little sight seeing across the river in Fort Smith before dark.  I just love to study the architecture of days gone by.  I am inspired by the beauty, symmetry, craftsmanship, and the enduring legacies that these historic structure represent.

 

 

I love the fact that these old homes have managed to endure and hang on in the middle of new growth and construction.  They are still holding on, many after nearly a hundred years.

 

 

 And of course there are always little bits of whimsy like an old commercial sign in thee middle of a residential lawn that catches my eye and makes me smile.  Hope that you find something in my journey that makes you smile, too.