A Day Away...

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

(all quotes by John Muir)



(Gilmer Lake from the picnic area)(click to biggify)

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.


(Sarah found a friend, a tiny poodle boy named Lil Bit)

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.


(delicious sandwiches for all)

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.


(Ryan was among the hungry)

How many hearts with warm red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining! A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours.


(Amy was as well)

I was lazy and didn't take pictures of the swimming area. We were extremely disappointed to find that it hasn't been kept up and was filled with hydrilla. Since our main reason for getting out was to swim, we drove over to Gladewater Lake where we spent the rest of the afternoon splashing and lazing on the shore. I was so lazy I did not take pictures. Suffice to say, it was delightful!