Friend or Foe

BSL Wildlife
admired ...

and
abhored ...



Holy Batmobile Robin!

What's that little bugger
doing in a pail ?

Bumstead Ponderosa

Remember the classic kid's book

"Gone-Away Lake"?
Published in 1957, ( a year before I was born),
it's still in print today.

In the book,
during their summer vacation,
Julian and his cousin Portia go hiking through the woods
and discover a place that looks like this:






"...They climbed up on the dock and walked it gingerly,
on the lookout for loose or missing planks.
The reeds that waved above their heads had been replaced
by a growth of plumed grass, still taller,
but as they broke through the last of this,
they found themselves on raised land,
close to one of the wrecked houses
... Now that they were close to it,
they could see what a ruin the old house was,
with broken windows and loose-toothed shutters.
Someone had carved initials into the porch railing,
and on one of the square porch pillars
a crop of fungus stuck out like turkey feathers."

'It looks haunt-y,' said Portia, drawing close to her cousin.

'I'd hate to be here at night. It's bad enough in plain real day.' "






Like Gone-Away Lake
Bumstead Ponderosa is a place where
time marches on,
and like the story in the book ....

"What happened is that the woods came and captured it...

'Something like the story of Sleeping Beauty, ' said Portia.

'Something like the story of Rip Van Winkle, ' said Julian.

'Yes, except that nothing sleeps inside but furniture,
and that's probably gone to pieces by now.
Time gets into anything; yes, indeed it does;
and weather helps it.' "


BTW: 225 feet of lake frontage
VERY private