An afternoon at Moraine State Park

 Many of the nature photos I share

are taken at Moraine State Park.

This park was established in the early 1970s

when a large area was flooded creating a recreational lake.

The lake is located in the same area as a glacial lake

from the Ice Age.

  
 

 While the RG was fishing from shore

Lucy and I went exploring and

     came upon this wild daffodil.

 

But wait maybe not so wild

Then I spied this moss covered rock and

when I moved in for a photo I noticed

a hole with what appeared to be the corner

of something manmade below the surface.

The RG explained that it appeared to be

part of a foundation.

 

Then I understood.

This area was once a small rural village

that no longer exists due to the flooding for the lake.

 

Good in everything bad.

Due to its location high on a hillside

the village church remains.

It continues to be an active congregation. 

They broadcast their services to the outdoors.

The RG and I enjoy the gospel music

when we are on the lake fishing.

 

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Here & There this Week-end

 

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A Handmade Gift

 

A quilt in the windmill pattern.

A handmade gift from my mother long ago 

 The RG claims it and says she made it for her favorite son-in-law.

(he was her only son-in-law)

 Fun to change the angle

and go from plain blue windmill to print windmill.

Oh, and he was her favorite son-in-law.
 

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First Moth

 

Just when I thought I had nothing for Critters

 Look who appeared

First of the season

It was escorted back outside after the photos.

 

 

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Family Pinks

Family Pieces in my care.

 

 The cabinet was made by my grandfather

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Clear Skies

Clear skies and sharp eyes

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Limiting myself to one photo today

 

Snapped these gulls on an outing

to a state park one winter

Just an amateur photographer and was

pleasantly surprised to see one highlighted

 

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Laboratory Gates

Laboratory Gates

Originally the gates to a research laboratory

including the development of a lens for Eastman Kodak.

The company grew and relocated.

The drive to the home was moved.

 

 

The Researcher and Conservationist

with his Wife

1949

 

Following their deaths the property was willed to

the local township and is now a public park.





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Joining Share Your Cup where we share things that make us happy.

 

Reading makes me happy.

 

Currently, Creole Princess by Beth White

 

 

 

This is just one of many pages in my Kindle library.

I recommend them.

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Bloodroot in bloom

 

A frisky Bumblebee finding nectar

 

A Dragonfly utilizing his camouflage capabilities

 

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A Moraine Mosaic Monday

Some may have viewed my previous post  at

Share Your Cup Thursday

where I mentioned a stone mason of long ago.

 

A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris ( soil and rock) that occurs in currently glaciated and formerly glaciated regions ...

 

We are located in the area of a 'moraine' created at the end of the ice age. The sand stone for these homes were quarried on and near the farm of the stone mason.

 

 

Here are beautiful examples of this craftsman's work.

They are the homes of three of his children

built around the late 1930s.

 Could the pattern of the stone be called mosaic?

 

This crafted stone sidewalk and carved stone mailbox post have remained in place at the stone mason's homestead

for many, many years.

 

P.S. As a child, I walked past this home on my way to our one room school house.

(yes, I'm that old : ) 

 

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a little Blue here and there

A little Blue here and there atMuldoon

 

Resting in a cactus.

 

 Oil Painting - a thrifting find

 

RG yard sale find

 

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Love of Tapestry

The word tapestry derives from Old French,

meaning "to cover with heavy fabric".

It would seem that 'tapestry' is

woven (pun accidental) into my collections.
 

Here are Four Tapestry Thrifting Finds



 And these two are for Traveling

 

This one carries my thrifting funds.

 

This one carries my trusty Kodak.

 

This one carries my mp3 player.

And this one is for whatnots.

This one's travels span two generations.

 

This one awaits it's maiden voyage.

 

Something that encourages me is this
We see the underside of our
 life's tapestry from below. God sees
our life's completed tapestry from above.

 

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