Snake Lake
We drove up to Quincy, Ca. for my grandson’s 13th birthday. Driving through the Feather River Canyon is one of our favorite drives, usually. This time we saw all the devastation from the Camp Fire, trees burned in both directions from the starting point at Pulgas. Crews were working on clearing and in several places there was only one lane, necessitating long waits, which added two hours to the trip.
I had so many tech problems. For one, there’s no wi-fi so I had to share their home computer with my grandson. Teenagers can be on the computer more that DKos addicts, and since it was his birthday I deferred to him. But of course there were things I wanted from my computer which was not available, and my passwords were at home. I took many photos which usually are uploaded automatically to Google Photos from where I move them to the Image Library. During the whole weekend only one made it. Once my phone is recharged maybe they will migrate, who knows?
Anyway, on Saturday we decided to go canoeing on Snake Lake. This is a small lake which has only a short window of accessibility, between frozen, and filled shore to shore with a dense mat of waterlilies. It was a perfect day and there were almost no other people there. Absolute silence is rare but we had it, until the ducks and geese contributed their voices. We took turns canoing around the lake, sometimes one and sometimes two in the canoe. When I went out alone I took the only photo which made it to the cloud.
I could see the waterlilies just below the surface of the water. In about 3 weeks the whole lake will be filled and boating will be impossible. These were planted years ago in a misguided commercial venture that went awry.
We just made it back, achieving 56 MPG for the entire 500 mile trip. I apologize for the brief KTK. Here’s hoping I can resolve the technical issues because I have about 50 photos on my phone, which you may see next week if I’m lucky.