A Fall Like August Morning

Marlena's First Day of School...what a cutie!

Slept in till 7:30, a delight, as I missed the crows cawking, according to Evie, who was awakened by them, a morning ritual unless we close the windows.  I am not sure where they have come from because until recently, the last ten years, I don't remember any crows around.  Surprise...things change.  Yesterday's paper had a couple of articles about how awful the lake is this summer, how we need to start doing something about it.  That was good to see, that people are beginning to get exercised about it but also it suggests the truth: the lake is becoming less and less an attraction for the area.

We walked the Bemus lake road yesterday and the scum/algae on the surface, out to the end of docks, the rotting weeds at the shore and the smell of these weeds would make any resident furious.  We feel so lucky to be on the west side of the lake, as the wind tends to blow much of the weeds towards the east side.  I am sure the lake residents don't sit outside when the wind blows towards their homes and shut their windows.  Our neighborhood has been mostly proactive because of Evie, in cleaning up the shore line so for the most part, our area is pretty good though some areas are beginning to show a green algae on the top of the water, something I don't think we can control.