This was my view earlier this week, when I left the house to go to work – heavy overnight fog was burning off with the sun pushing through – very pretty!
Sunrise through fog
My old home, a long way from home
I was reading through the Boston Globe today (a huge Sunday newspaper about 4″ thick), and flicking through the many advert sections to check out the latest gadgets, when suddenly an advert in the Best Buy flyer caught my eye:
Take a closer look at the Garmin GPS screen! I’ve no idea what strange mix-up resulted in USA based Best Buy running this picture, but seeing Crystal Palace (where I was born), Bromley (where I grew up), Croydon, Sidcup (where I went to school), etc really made my day 🙂
An empty reservoir
A lack of rain and, I’ve heard, poor water management in the town, results once again in our local Goose Cove reservoid being empty! But it makes for some good photos …
You can see a line with brown below on the big rock; that is the normal water level in the reservoir! It’s down perhaps 15 feet (it’s so low that no more water can be drawn out of it; what’s left is evaporating).
Back nearly a century local resident Roger Babson had various boulders carved with messages to inspire the public and to assist unemployed stone-cutters (see this website for more information); in addition to carving positive messages, Babson marked various “cellar holes” with a numbered boulder – cellar holes locate where a house once was, when Dogtown was a thriving community!
Since that time, the Goose Cove reservoir has been developed and normally submerges some cellar marker stones – but with the low water, we can see stones “29” and “30 easily (the huge boulder in the picture above has “29” on it):
On the way from our house to the reservoir, two more stones are passed – “28” is in the brush near the water, while “27” is partly buried on the side of the road!
There are many more boulders in the area; Margaret & I toured some lots of years ago – before this website (or my digital camera) existed! Maybe it’s time to tour again (although there are many websites out there already …)
