Photos of Lakes and Hills

 

Travalon and I continue to watch The Office, and there was an episode where the main character, who works for a midsize paper company, went to a small, family-owned paper company posing as a lawyer looking for a paper company for his law firm. The kind people running the small company gave him a list of their clients so he could call them for recommendations, but of course he was going to call them to steal them away. Then in an episode we watched last night, the main character called the small business and got a message where the proprietor sounded like he was holding back tears as he said that after forty years in business, they had shut down. I know it's a fictional show, but I'm still not over it. It's probably mostly my overactive imagination, making me think how I'd feel to have a lifetime of work go down the drain like that, but it doesn't help that such things happen all the time in real life. Greed is awful.

Tonight at Night Prayer I mentioned how a couple of R&B songs from the 90's, "He Wasn't Man Enough" by Toni Braxton and "Be Happy" by Mary J. Blige, are sampled in current hip hop songs. Nothing wrong with that on the surface, but both original songs are about women realizing they don't have to be treated disrespectfully by a man, and then the new ones are men rapping about treating women disrespectfully. I said why can't they sample a song other than one where they're going against the entire message of the original song, and the Dairyman's Daughter said the devil can't do anything original. Rich agreed that it's diabolical, and he gave some examples of TV shows where the original was wholesome and then a remake was not at all. I think they may have a point.

Here are some photos that Travalon took yesterday. First is the bird party on Indian Lake.

This is the hill at Indian Lake that has a chapel on the top.

This is a view of Lake Marion in Mazomanie.

And this is the train - with two engines - going alongside the lake.

This is the hill on the other side of the lake.

And here is the train again. It was quite long.

But there was an end to it. Note the lotus patch in the lake.

This is Black Earth Creek, which we also walked alongside.

Cousin Itt??? Is that you???

Here you can see the railroad tracks running toward the hill beside Lake Marion.

The other direction, they go over a small bridge.

This is the hill at Pheasant Branch. 

And here is the crane party, which had moved from the marshy area to across the road in a cornfield.

I took this photo of the sunset tonight with my phone, from our chair's office.

Despite the dirty window, you can see how stunning it was. Remember how beautiful our world is if you are discouraged by the results of tomorrow's election. No matter who wins, there will still be lakes and hills and sunsets.

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