Perhaps a laugh

 

And changed a zillion diapers on your butt!

This didn't happen on my recent trips to Asheville through Swannanoa, but it is at the corner where everyone turns to get on I-40. Apparently the guy was at a gas pump and hit the accelerator rather than the brake pedal. No injuries reported...but you have to wonder how he got out!

Dry Falls, near Franklin NC. It's actually quite damp under the falls!

I was lucky enough to be alive when this happened, and lived within a hundred miles of it! Saw it on the news with the traffic problems.

A week ago Friday was March 13...and here's Mr Rogers (no relation) talking about King Friday the 13th.

“Laugh. We’re all going to be dead anyway some day. So while you should try your hardest to make the most of your life, when something funny happens, when you make a mistake, or even (and perhaps especially) when bad things happen, it’s easier if you can laugh about yourself and the world.”

Source: Life Is Short And So Is This Book: Brief Thoughts On Making The Most Of Your Life by Ex-Microsoft general manager and writer, Peter Atkins on how to live life.

If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.

Hildegard of Bingen Thanks to AC, must add this video! For all my fortunate Canadian friends! May you stay free of the (insert expletive here) threats from the Orange one, who we citizens of the USA deplore and wish to be rid of asap!

Cold around the lake

 

When the temperature drops, I can still walk around Lake Tomahawk, all bundled up.  Here's the finished playground. The idea of accessibility was for a parent to be able to roll onto the playground in his wheel-chair, apparently...not to have any playing equipment for a child in a wheel-chair. We have one resident who was injured in an accident a few years ago, and he had been a coach at the local college. So the whole thing (raising the money) and publicity was for him to be able to be there with his kids. Of course the report in local newspapers also said that the paving company donated time and materials for the new driving ramp next to the new softer rubber playground itself.

Yet another tree had been removed, as well as another bigger pile of dirt!

The lake is still not at it's regular level.

I do like the new little waterfall on the creek though. But it's sure going to clog up with debris as these leaves already have shown.

Improvements at the lake

 

What a cute little hot rod! I imagine a young guy and a bobby-soxer gal riding in it, but I think it's more likely an older guy who just wants to be the young guy still. Who else can afford to make a car creation like this?

There a new swing with a safety harness for tiny tots. The newly paved area is still closed off for kids to play behind orange plastic fencing.

More orange plastic fencing with mounds of dirt, and the ever-preseent bush-hog, or whatever these are called.

Well, that yellow thing is new, definitely.

OK, there's a nice little waterfall...and they've widened the creek a bit before it flows over the waterfall. No idea what the yellow dam is there to catch.

The lake is still not 100% full.  But Saturday's sunshine made for a most enjoyable walk around Lake Tomahawk.

These ducks in the shadows look kind of bored. That's the spillway behind them, high and dry. The pipe valve is releasing water pretty fast through the dam, so who knows when the lake will be full enough for water to flow over the spillway.