| Crooked Lake - August 2000 | |
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Almost home. We got a stop sign but we lost some trees. |
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in the morning it looks a little beat-up but its still standing. I feel a lot like that.. |
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Remember climbing these steps up to the road when you were headed for the lake? They're still there. So is the lake. |
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The pump on the hill is still there. I remember it surrounded by bushes with three "hidden" stairways leading to it. |
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When the apple tree was there, it would drop hundreds of apples that turn brown and slippery and make you slide down the hill on your butt. |
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When we were kids, the walk down to the lake was great! Coming back up the hill was NOT so great. |
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the final walkway to the lake used to have a pump halfway down. |
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Then those "hundred" steps down to the beach were treacherous if your beach ball or inner-tube got away. |
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The "Swiss-Chalet" is still there. |
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The beach was pretty deserted on Sunday morning. |
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Looking back from the end of pier,the stairs are on the left. |
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The slide was waiting for me but the raft is gone. |
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Its still a very pretty view looking down where the cat-tails all grow, where your beach ball goes if the wind gets it. |
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Crooked Lake on a warm day in August |
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The neighbors are still standing too, I guess its ONLY been 20 years. ha! remember the gully that seemed like the Grand Canyon when you were a kid? |
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Grandma's cottage, as it was called, still sits on a hill in a Grove of Oak trees. I spent my first birthday there 50 years ago and I spent a Sunday morning there this summer and a lot of summer days in between. |
