Before leaving Hingham I finally was able to get a picture of this sign. Massachusetts has one for each of their towns and it's such a kick to drive from one town to another and see this sign with date of settlement started. Hard to get pictures because you don't know where the town line begins and there is no place to pull over for a quick stop and picture. It's a bummer. On this one I was lucky enough after a month to be driving towards sign and 1st at stoplight with camera next to me. ha! All these towns are so historic and have some wonderful history. Too bad so many have been neglected. Roads are terrible in most places and some are really run down while others thrive.. just like anywhere. Just interesting observations. I was taken so much with Hingham because we lived there for 5 weeks and it was so CLEAN! Loved the manicured yards and over 1800 historic homes and some still in residence of 13 generations! That is something in this young country with so littl
Ever since we have been here at Wish Poosh we have heard about how the water in our lake is temporary. You see, it is a reservoir to be used as irrigation water for the Yakima valley and it's orchards and vineyards (which have steadily grown over the years)... Our water did reach our road from campground to our picnic area leading out to the boat launch. It took about 6 weeks for the snow to melt to fill our 10 mile lake but now it is going down much faster! They are dropping the lake about a foot a day so expect it won't be too much longer before we are able to access our island again by foot! The down part is all the mosquitos the water has helped to generate but we are hopeful that now the water is going down the mosquitos will go away too. The boaters are out in force on the weekends trying to take advantage of boat launch while they can. Guess the lake is still here which is a little longer than normal. Don't expect it will last too much longer but fortunately we did take a lot of pictures! Isn't this a cool picture of one of our many stumps! It looks almost like an octopus but I can report it is now back on dry land and looking like it's old self...
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