Ozark Springs

We spent Thursday afternoon , May 21st, 2009, visiting three springs in the Ozark Mountains with Jim's brother, Dean, and his wife, Lonie. The springs were all very beautiful.

These are some pretty wildflowers we saw at Big Springs in the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri.

This is Dean, Jim's brother, with his wife, Lonie, at the outflow of Alley Springs. Alley Springs has 81 million gallons ouflow daily.

Guess who these two are! We are also standing by the Alley Springs Outflow.

There is an old mill here at Alley springs which is no longer in production as a mill. There were some archiaeologists there digging around the mill.This is a restored old schoolhouse at Alley Springs

This is Big Springs where it comes out of the rock and makes a river of 150-250 million gallons a day!
This shows Big Springs making the river to the left.
Lonie puts her feet in the 50 plus degree water.
We had to walk down nine tenths of a mile in the upper 8o's to find the headwaters of the Greer Springs. It was a beautiful walk through the woods where the path was lined with poison ivy. It was a very enjoyable little hike. Greer Springs flows at the rate of 220 millions gallons a day.

On the path to Greer Springs we found these rocks which seemed to be carved by man, but found our it wasn't true. This is a sandstone rock, which is naturally shaped this way by weathering and faulting. It originally had dolomite on it but the dolomite has eroded away.