Sept 8 2012 Lake Champlain, Vermont

Today we were going to kayak on the lake in the morning, then I was going to hang out at the pool after that. It was too windy to boat-white caps on the lake.  By the time I got to the pool it was closed. . .

Lovely pool though, a wooly bear caterpillar

Waves on lake Champlain,  I walked out here with John after the pool was closed and decided it was a great place to sunbathe

Beautiful rocks on the point. I am glad we did not go out in the boat, the waves just got bigger and bigger. A huge thunderstorm was blowing in, the wind was really fierce.

big waves

bigger waves. The wind and the waves started to scare me on the point, so I hiked back. The tall trees were swaying really far, I was afraid one would blow over. But did not.

I stopped in the nature center on the way back. It was a house built in the early 1900’s by two women-sisters who summered here. Their uncle had owned the land, he had a huge house on Button Island. The nature center is in the sisters home. The ranger, Kristine lives there as well as the nature center. We met her on the night walk, were going to kayak on the lake with her in the am. Nice display in there, These are the ‘button’ found in the area, a rement of the the glaciers, the clay soil formed around the plants when the glaciers moved above them, then it was compressed and petrified.  The British called them buttons.

The storm moving in, the cattails are almost laying down in the wind. a rainbow afterwards.

rainbow in the sunset and the sunset.

John took  this photo of me at sunset.