12voltman59
Sep 3, 2008, 12:25 PM
Well---as the guys in Monty Python used to say--"Now-time for something completely different!"
I have been putting up some of my liberal rants on Vi's threads--so it's time for me to post up something different--some more photos taken in recent days.
Around the lake I spend much of my time, at least in the warm weather seasons, a tradition started about 20 or so years ago to mark the end of the summer season here on this lake. Like a lot of places in northern climes---the summer season basically runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day and unbelieveably---we have said goodbye to Summer 2008 in the formal sense is over.
The kids are back in school, Friday nights are once again football nights and all of that---and so summer, while still going in terms of the meterological and astronomical aspects of the season----as far as people are concerned--summer is over.
The tradition is that about 9 p.m. of the Sunday of the three day Labor Day weekend, people light off a number of 30 minute road flares along the shoreline of the lake.
So---around a great deal of the approximately 30 miles of shoreline on this lake----there is a red glow of the flares that mark the "end of summer."
Here are some of the photos I took here on our part of the lake:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r216/mpgarr/P1080164.jpg
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r216/mpgarr/P1080165.jpg
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r216/mpgarr/P1080158.jpg
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r216/mpgarr/P1080162-1.jpg
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r216/mpgarr/P1080146.jpg
I have been putting up some of my liberal rants on Vi's threads--so it's time for me to post up something different--some more photos taken in recent days.
Around the lake I spend much of my time, at least in the warm weather seasons, a tradition started about 20 or so years ago to mark the end of the summer season here on this lake. Like a lot of places in northern climes---the summer season basically runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day and unbelieveably---we have said goodbye to Summer 2008 in the formal sense is over.
The kids are back in school, Friday nights are once again football nights and all of that---and so summer, while still going in terms of the meterological and astronomical aspects of the season----as far as people are concerned--summer is over.
The tradition is that about 9 p.m. of the Sunday of the three day Labor Day weekend, people light off a number of 30 minute road flares along the shoreline of the lake.
So---around a great deal of the approximately 30 miles of shoreline on this lake----there is a red glow of the flares that mark the "end of summer."
Here are some of the photos I took here on our part of the lake:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r216/mpgarr/P1080164.jpg
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r216/mpgarr/P1080165.jpg
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r216/mpgarr/P1080158.jpg
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r216/mpgarr/P1080162-1.jpg
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r216/mpgarr/P1080146.jpg