Fall Color

  

Global Warming.  My life experience is too small to make that observation, but when it comes to weird gorgeous warm, today is it.

Reformation at the Capitol

Pretty in Pink

See more from the BIG PINK as my sister blog, ID Arkansas

The Golden Hour Part 2 (evening)

Back, west facing side of the AR State Capitol

Can you find the broken brick?

The Golden Hour

AR State Capitol , 11/07/ 2007

These photos are taken on the "front porch" of Arkansas, where big columns and big stairs frame big brass doors, which in turn, open to the second floor of the Capitol. (Truth is, the doors are seldom opened. Since 911 visitors are asked to enter under the stairs, except for special occasions.)

As is, all pictures were taken in a span from about 7:30 and 7:45 AM when the rising sun established a kind of echoing light harmonic with the doors.

Color Wheel

Fall at the Arkansas State Capitol.

All pics, November 3-6, 2008, Little Rock AR (c) by Kirk Jordan

These last few days have just been off of the charts in terms of radiant color, blister blue skies, and a singing heart. Its a funny thing and all, given that share a political philosophy at variance with our new president-elect. The Bible gives some interesting advice to followers of Christ. It says that we should weep with those who weep, and rejoice with those who rejoice. But what do you when the weeping or rejoicing among those who call upon God is caused by the same event?

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Bonus points.

See if you can spot "another" moon, beyond the obvious one in second-to-last frame. Its a very tiny moon.

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Face Book. I have finally done it. I have joined the face-full hordes who communicate in one sentence drivel with an exploding networks of friends. (At least now I can see what my kids are doing -- sorta.) If you should like to be my friend and are on Facebook, just send a message to Kirk Stephen Jordan from Conway. It may take me a bit to add anything of substance.

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The Mighty Works project exists to praise God for the draining of the world. (If life and color were not at times drained from verdant things, we should not know of their hidden glories.)

Addendum: The little moon was supposed to be in the picture of the Capitol dome, with Red Maple leaves... just to the right of the dome. (Its hard to see in the blog version) However, the ever clever Steve Johnson spotted this moon in the same frame as the first moon!

Rose bowl

I know they use real roses in the Rose Bowl in California, but I guess I am just surprised to see a rose this lovely in early November in AR. 11/4/2008

Crepe

2008

2004

Just in case your not from around these parts, the Crepe Myrtle is Arkansas' premier flowering shrub (or tree) throughout the blistering summer. I tend to associate the start of Myrtle season with the Fourth of July, when the Crepes explode like so many Roman Candles.

As is, Myrtles come in at least four colors: Cumulo White, Cotton Candy pink, Ruby Red, and Dark Lavender. As for shape, they range from sprigs and sprays to big bushes or even full blown trees, as shaped by pruning.

For even more on Crepes, and the genesis of the Crepe Myrtle seed head see:

http://idarkansas.blogspot.com/

http://idarkansas.blogspot.com/2008/07/creype-myrtle-extravaganza-sp.html

Master Blaster 03/11/08

White out (c) by Kirk Jordan mightyworks@conwaycorp.net

All pics, Friday, March 7, 2008 Arkansas State Capitol, Little Rock. Around the lunch hour.

Contrary to appearances, this is not the "Capitol Works Project" - its just where I happen to be when a lot of cool stuff happens.

Several days ago I posted a body of photos from this same location with a slightly lighter snow. I called it a "one hit wonder" because, within a day we were back to short sleeves. But Arkansas is not known for uniformity. So two days after short sleeves we braced again for another round. And today -- short sleeve warm!

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Photo buff stuff: Falling snow is something of a trick, for the reason that it is white, and tends to fall through whited skies. I was able to pull out some of the flakes with flash, or capture the flakes against a darker backdrop. Even so, its hard to catch the magnitude of a fall in process.

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As is, the early blooming Japanese Magnolia are now pretty much bruised, but there are several trees (of a slightly different variety) that have yet to open and should be good for a show.


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The Mighty Works Project exists to join the flakes, ride the wind, and have a blast.


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Still in development, but feel free to tour

http://startledbyexistence.squarespace.com/

Duster Bluster 03/05/08

One hit wonder (c) by Kirk Jordan (mightyworks@conwaycorp.net)

All Pics, March 4, 2008 Little Rock, AR

Two days ago it was short sleeves and powder blue skies. And today, after a strong snow dust (with big accumulations an hour or so west of Little Rock), its all drip and dry again. The snow flashed, stayed around an hour or two, then seeped wettily away.

As is, the Japanese Magnolias just started opening this weekend. Though some blooms will be lost, the temperatures never went so low or so long, that the majority of blooms should be lost.

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the Mighty Works Project exists to savor the temporal, even as we hunger for that which does not fade.

Christmas Leftovers: 01/05/08

AR state Capitol with "P E A C E" and Warp Speed Swoosh (c) Kirk Jordan

Sorry folks, to throw yet another state capitol pic and odd self -portrait at you in several weeks - but these were just too much fun. The "Warp Speed" pictures are accomplished by zooming a zoom lens during the course of a longer exposure. (You may even find a stylized angel in the image of the tunnel swoosh.)


I have been basking in the wonder of a much need two-week vacation, including a trip to Tulsa to see Mom, brother Tien with family, and friends. (Tulsa was hit with a devastating ice storm in the weeks before Christmas, leaving my mom without electricity for some eleven days -- and also leaving her with a yard full of huge limbs and branches -- and now with a curb side stick-stack the size of a moving van!

The Mighty Works project exists to thank the Father - "from whom His whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name" -- and all those of you who have made my last year so rich.

Half Dome: 121907

Dome Zone and "Moment" poem (c) by Kirk Jordan

Today's Mighty Work features the back side of the Arkansas State Capitol, photographed chronologically from early November to mid December, with the Maples in the first frame giving way to the late falling Bradford Pear in the latter. With exception of the storm pic, each photo depicts the glow of the setting sun, as cast upon the western face.

As is, Christmas time is a special high use time for the Capitol, as thousands upon thousands of school children come and offer gifts of choral song. And while I have gotten a bit used to it, there are those moments (like the one referenced below ) in which the seasonal mill gives way to the truly awe inspiring.



Moment. 11/30/2001, 12:61PM


Today

The planets stood in line
like a key in a lock
and the stars spelled out
fantastical words.

Today, for one brief moment,
no one bled, and the dailies
all fell silent as the bullets shimmied
backward up the barrels.

Today, on my lunch break
a choir of
local teenage angels from the Benton High-school choral
sang
to a crowd of five,
lifting splendiferous voices like
some organic pipe-organ
into the dome,
and singing:

Oh, come let us adore Him.

Today there
was an extra minute
on the clock.

Unrecorded,
Borrowed from

Tomorrow.