Many More Lake Photos!

Here are a bunch more lake pictures. I hope you can stand it. I don't know why there are so many, but the place is pretty photogenic.

Here's Sarah working on a pretty crocheted flower.

A major gardening project - here's the gardening team.

Dad's garden

Sweeties on the dock

Pretty Mom

Hard work on the afghan

All dressed up and ready to go out for birthday dinner

Mom's garden - so colorful!

One of the first activities when you go to the lake is eating breakfast at The Wagner. It was Father's Day, so pretty busy.

The cottage is looking good.

I love how people here plant things in old shoes. :-)

Some Mennonite kids having their lunch.

One of the Mennonite quilt shops - amazing work.

Can you believe these are all hand-quilted? Wow!

It was strawberry season so we had to go picking. Once you start you can't stop.

We ended up with 7 quarts I think. Delicious!

The old stone barn in Bellona. It has a new blue roof now.

Another Mennonite quilt shop - we were on a research mission so we had to visit several. So sad! (-;

Many, many quilts

Why are we wearing the same shirts? It's a mystery to me, but the funny thing is that no one noticed for a long time.

You often see these out on the roads.

Steve and Lucky

Happy Birthday Mom!

Strawberry birthday pie

Glenn's beautiful shed

A view from the car

Sarah and Nathan at Rooster HillThere's a storm on the way!

But we went shopping anyway. Here's the bulk food store - so many goodies!

A few more views

What a beautiful lake!

Gridlock Pillow

Here's what I was making with that big basket of yarn you can see in the previous post. It was inspired by Kaffe Fassett's gridlock pillow. Very fun project.

Here's the reverse side - wild, right?

Now I have to figure out what to put on the back of the pillow, but the front is done anyway. Yay - I finished a project!

Projects at the Lake

I think I have slow-blogger's disease but I'll try to catch up. I had a great visit with family at Keuka Lake. I took a bunch of projects to work on while I was there. Everyone else was working on projects too. Here are some of the project pictures. I'll add some more when I get them all together.

Susie's working on a cool babette blanket. Dad always has a good book going.

The knitters...

It finally warmed up enough to take off jackets.

The jigsaw project

Mom made this cutie little mouse. Now it lives in my office.

I made two pairs of booties - aren't these the cutest?

Baby crocs

The animals are good models.

Wine decorations

17 Miles on the Kennebec

I hope you like river pictures - here are a bunch! Susie and I went on a beautiful river run in our kayaks. We started in Waterville and went down to Augusta. It was part of a Kennebec River festival. Very nice - they had a bus to take people back so we only needed one car. (It really was 17 miles!)

We're off.
We were amazingly lucky with the weather. It rained every day except this one. It wasn't this smooth all the way, but isn't this beautiful?
Catching up with a few more kayaks around the half-way point in Sydney.
Here we're coming up to an island - lunchtime!
These things in the water are from when they used to have log drives. These helped channel the logs somehow. Maybe they had people standing there poking them along? Sounds dangerous.
Here's Augusta in the distance. It was funny to come into a city. Most of the trip was really woodsy with just a few signs of civilization - some wires and railroad tracks. We saw herons, ospreys, an eagle and a bunch of big fish jumping.
Starting to see the landing place on the left. We landed at a fort. Someone shot off a canon while we were still in the water - scary noise!
Susie made it - still going strong!
Waiting for the bus.
This person was paddling on a surfboard. She lasted about 2 minutes, then fell in.
What a fun day. I hope we can do some other stretches of the river later in the summer.