Out our back door

[fossis]

We are blessed with mountains just 'Out our back door', literally.
Today okiepackrat & I drove about ten minutes from our town & explored a mountain, we were looking for some 'Ancient Carvings'
that he had been told about.
Since I had worked for the late Gloria Farley, (Explorer, writer, Historian) , she was largely responsible for getting the Heavener Runestone State park established, & school boys had found "Runes' carved in a rock locally, we went searching.
We were in prime country for Cougars, & kept a watchful eye out, & carried pistols for protection.
Although we didn't find any 'carvings', we saw some beautiful scenery, waterfalls, bluffs, odd rocks, odd trees, snakeskin, etc.......

Hopefully There's always another day, then we'll look some more.
Fossis..................

 

[seger98]

Nice pictures fossis, what's that thing in the third picture down that the coin is sitting on? Just a rock?


Chris

 

[PackRatFromOk]

we need to go on up nextime wean we go but you lead

 

[fossis]

Nice pictures fossis, what's that thing in the third picture down that the coin is sitting on? Just a rock?


Chris

Hey Chris, its called a 'concretion', they have been mistaken for carvings, I have seen them as large as the bed of a pickup truck, I have several in my collection, someplaces they call them 'waffle stones'.
The darker stone is usually harder than the light sandstone, once Gloria & I traveled to a place deep in the mts to look at a 'carving', when we saw the stone it was designed so you could play checkers on it, it was very huge, but I would loved to have brought it home, they thought it was a carving, but when we saw it, we just looked at each other & smiled, it was natural.
Check out Rocks & Gems, (Oklahoma Concretions found), by Fossis, for some more examples of Concretions.







Fossis............

 

[fossis]

we need to go on up nextime wean we go but you lead

Okay by me.

Fossis............

 

[scotto]

Nice pics!

Welcome to the forum, PackratfromOK!

I'm sure we'll meet one of these days.

 

[fossis]

Nice pics!

Welcome to the forum, PackratfromOK!

I'm sure we'll meet one of these days.

Thanks Scotto, we'll try & get up a hunt.

Fossis............

 

[seger98]

Thanks for anserwing my question, I almost thought it was a rusty old manafold cover or something!


Weird formation!


Chris

 

[Ray S S]

Fossis, these are some great pics. I love to go poking around in rocky areas like that. It always facinates me how a little seed can grow out of a little crack in the rock and grow into a tree.

Thanks for sharing. There is a lot to see in all of these pics.

Ray

 

[Lowbatts]

Awesome good ground to play in. (By play in I often mean sit and admire)
But it'd be breaking my ankles. Enjoy!

 

[extractor]

Great pictures thanks for sharing.

 

[fossis]

Fossis, these are some great pics. I love to go poking around in rocky areas like that. It always facinates me how a little seed can grow out of a little crack in the rock and grow into a tree.

Thanks for sharing. There is a lot to see in all of these pics.

Ray

You're Welcome, we had a great time.
The old cedar tree was actually 'hollow', it's a wonder it lived all these years.

Fossis............

 

[fossis]

Awesome good ground to play in. (By play in I often mean sit and admire)
But it'd be breaking my ankles. Enjoy!

okiepackrat is 25, & I will be 66 tomorrow, so I climbed very carefully. :P
But I am 'thankful' that I can still climb mountains.
Fossis...............

 

[fossis]

Great pictures thanks for sharing.

Glad to share.

Fossis...............

 

[DigginThePast]

Great view you've got there. The rock concretion is very cool. Thanks for sharing the pics.

 

[fossis]

Great view you've got there. The rock concretion is very cool. Thanks for sharing the pics.

Thanks, we went to another mt today to try & fetch one home with a litter, but I think someone must have found it,
we couldn't locate it.
There were some that I couldn't haul in my little 'Ford Ranger'.

Fossis.............

 

[sasnz]

Wow great pics, whats out your front door

sasnz

 

[fossis]

Wow great pics, whats out your front door

sasnz

Thanks, out the front door,(the view from the mt), & farther South is The Ouachita National
forest, it covers 1.8 million acres, stretching from Eastern OK to Little Rock AR.
It has a mixture of 'hardwoods & pine & cedar', one area has 'beech trees', plus 'shaggy bark hickory', maple, birch, Sycamore,etc....
There are Black bears, mountain lions, coyotes, beavers, foxes, red & grey squirrels, flying squirrels, whitetail deer, armadillos, skunks, civit cats, moles, voles, bats, bobcats, wild hogs, eagles, hawks, herons, osprey, owls, crows, turkeys , buzzards, etc........
Fish of all kinds, including the giant alligator gar south of us.
And (large Black Cats), not supposed to even exist, but I have seen two myself, & know several more who have seen them, one was coming up on a porch at night (eating cat food), no pun intended, the man walked out & came face to face with it at night.
But they 'don't exist' according to Fish & Game.

Fossis..............

 

[capt1989]

Great pictures partner. Thanks for sharing them. Looks like you enjoyed yourself. I love to walk around that type of area. Being raised in Louisiana, I find any setting that doesn't have swamp or water interesting. I could look around a place like that for hours.

john

 

[mamabear]

nice pix, beautiful day to be out exploring. I have the pics you previously posted of the concretion as my wallpaper on my 'puter. think the snake skin was a rattler?