Memorial Day Weekend on the Lake

We took the boat out for a little while yesterday and saw, as we expected, every form of water transportation imaginable! From canoes to pedal-boats to personal watercraft to sailboats to ski boats to bass boats to cabin cruisers. Here's just a microcosm ... taken right here in our cove, from our boat. The house in the background was the site of a birthday party with a live band. There were 5 or 6 boats tied up around their boathouse and the neighboring boathouse to the right plus several PWCs. Our friend was trying for a leisurely sail and I was trying for a picture of the leisurely sail when this ski-boat came flying through the shot. We decided to leave the lake to the week-enders and go home and listen to the live band from the safety and sanity of our deck! Happy Memorial Day!

Life at the Lake on Memorial Weekend

Our (all of us CDP bloggers) friend Abe at Brookeville Daily Photo has a great post for Memorial Day. Please check it out.
Around here, Memorial Weekend is known as the FIRST BIG WEEKEND OF THE SUMMER and everyone who has a lake house comes. That means lots of things....yard work, getting the boat back in shape, inflating all of the kiddos water toys and hitting the water with every imaginable vessel available. For those of us lucky enough to be here full-time, it means "HERE THEY COME AGAIN, THERE GOES OUR PEACE AND QUIET!". We were "week-enders" longer than we've been "full-timers" so we hope we still maintain a sense of balance and patience! Anyway, I had expected to get a photo of boats and PWC's galore this morning. But, alas, it's a bit windy and overcast and still pretty quiet out there. Maybe tomorrow or Monday I'll be able to get such a post. But for today, here are a few golden oldies with the theme of lake life, memories and Old Glory.

Peace, happiness, health and good memories to you all!

Sunset cruise

We've had some dreary-looking days and some terrible thunderstorms this week, so I just needed a reminder about how beautiful it was this past weekend and how beautiful it will be again soon! Sunday evening we took a little cruise on a friend's boat. (Thanks F&P!). It's nice to be able to ride with someone else and get the opportunity to shoot pictures. I would advise against leaving a pager in your shirt pocket when you lean over the edge of the boat looking for that "odd shot", tho.....