Small and Smaller Houses

Update: NewMexiKen says April 19 - 27 is National Park Week. 

At Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, near Springfield Missouri.  On  an excellent sisterly suggestion, I took a side trip to the civil war museum and National Park battlefield site - not a far drive from the airport and of more interest to me than the Bass Pro where everyone else was.   The weather was perfect but recent ice storms and flooding  have been severe and much the trail system is closed.  I visited the Ray House, which served as a hospital during the fighting, and its beautiful stone barrel vault spring house.  Then I walked over Wilson's Creek to a small log cabin where a hawk sat perched.