Near Owasco in times gone by!

Near Owasco in times gone by!

No Native Americans are here now, only tourists.  Amusement Party has become part of only the silence of the ages!  The lake as taken its past and buried it deep within its depths.

Gone are the watercolor artists that sat in Sunday colors with brush in hand to capture its beauty.  The sound of the lapping water disturbed by the hum of and occasional motor powering a boat up its waterway.

So sad to think of in its quiet.  Indians gone and dispossessed, amusements gone to the scrape heap and only nature remains to remind us of times gone by!

Stopping by the woods on a Snowy Sunday!

Lebanon Reservoir in Winter

The winter is such a long drawn out affair in my "neck of the woods."  

Today the same as yester-year our local Amish families are enjoying the age old sport of ice fishing.  Sundays just seem to be brighter when you can visit such a spot and think of the days of Courier & Ives paintings with the sky and scenery in its special winter hues. Think of the hours it took them to do what you can with your digital camera and computer in minutes.

Hats off to these hardy souls who live life without the harsh realities of media hype, loud and expensive machinery, children glued to computers, and families on the run here or there in their cars looking for a "better life!"

Maybe we have had it "all" all along and just need to take a step back and remember Sunday dinner with family, special picnics by the pond or cooking at home for your relatives who were stopping by after church because it was "the Sunday thing to do."

We changed our life style to make us richer....but perhaps we are poorer for the change!