Yesterday Mrs. Waggs & I took a Sunday drive. We left at 9:30 AM and made it home at 5:00 PM. We traveled 129 miles and never were more than 20 miles from home, as the crow flies. We drove around the lake, something Mrs. Waggs has never done and something that has been more than 35 years since I had done.
The sky was a little hazy as can be seen in the following photos.
This pic shows the lower east side of lake.
From the east side looking north. Lots of sail boats were out.
This is the south end of the lake looking west, toward the populated side.
An old homestead. We would have explored this but there is a large modern home just out of the picture to the right.
My favorite house of the whole trip in one of the small settlements near the lake. Access to these communities is by boat only in the winter.
The remnants of an old log cabin. This place was literally built on a small leveled spot on the side of a gully. Old lilac bushes were evident as well as this patch of sweat peas. Somewhere I have a picture of this with the log cabin still standing. I don't know if I can find it but if I do I will try to get it posted.
On the down-hill side of the cabin was this rock retaining wall. It's hard to see in this pic.
Just a little further back was this building, not sure if it was another house or a shed. At one time it was two stories but it is fast becoming one. We did not go into it, it looked like it could come down at anytime. We would have loved to explore this homesite a little better but were pressed for time. We were never lost but were a little bewildered a time or two and got on the wrong road, which cost us about an hour of time. That's what we get for using a map nearly 40 years old, even on the back side of the lake roads change.
The lake side of the mountain where we live. From steep cliff it looks like half of it fell into the lake at one time.
Coming down out of the mountains into civilized country again, the backwaters of the lake or river.
And one last photo of the backwaters.
The sky was a little hazy as can be seen in the following photos.
This pic shows the lower east side of lake.
From the east side looking north. Lots of sail boats were out.
This is the south end of the lake looking west, toward the populated side.
An old homestead. We would have explored this but there is a large modern home just out of the picture to the right.
My favorite house of the whole trip in one of the small settlements near the lake. Access to these communities is by boat only in the winter.
The remnants of an old log cabin. This place was literally built on a small leveled spot on the side of a gully. Old lilac bushes were evident as well as this patch of sweat peas. Somewhere I have a picture of this with the log cabin still standing. I don't know if I can find it but if I do I will try to get it posted.
On the down-hill side of the cabin was this rock retaining wall. It's hard to see in this pic.
Just a little further back was this building, not sure if it was another house or a shed. At one time it was two stories but it is fast becoming one. We did not go into it, it looked like it could come down at anytime. We would have loved to explore this homesite a little better but were pressed for time. We were never lost but were a little bewildered a time or two and got on the wrong road, which cost us about an hour of time. That's what we get for using a map nearly 40 years old, even on the back side of the lake roads change.
The lake side of the mountain where we live. From steep cliff it looks like half of it fell into the lake at one time.
Coming down out of the mountains into civilized country again, the backwaters of the lake or river.
And one last photo of the backwaters.
very cool!
ReplyDeletesounds like you had a nice anniversary.