Photos

 

Myers Creek at the Thorp Ranch during high water, May 2006

Living on the Pond

     For a dozen years, I’ve had the great good fortune to live near Mary Ann Creek Lake (I call it The Pond). Living near a pond means rare and amazing opportunities to watch the creatures that depend on bodies of water for survival, and to observe how fragile their lives are as more and more habitat disappears. The balance between wildlife and humans has yet to be struck!  

   I have painted The Pond many times. Here are two that I hope convey the peace and beauty of this water oasis.    (Rusty Haydon, Chesaw artist)

One morning in late December 2012, we noticed 

that a cougar came down Byers Road leaving these

paw prints indicating s(he) was traveling at a pretty

good clip, probably heading across the valley and up

onto Buckhorn Mountain.  (Rick Gillespie)

Here is the left front paw print.

 This is the left rear paw print.

The following pictures are from winter and early

spring scenes in the Myers Creek Watershed.

(Lisa Eversgerd and Jason Llwellen)

Ice fishing on Lost Lake.

Trail up to top of Mt. Bonaparte

Snow trees going up Mt. Bonaparte

Burrr! Hope that's somethin' hot you're drinking at Lookout on top of Mt. Bonaparte

Looking up one of the old-growth western larch.

A view looking north in the lower Myers Creek Watershed.

Taking a horse-back ride in the lower watershed. 

Looking over the Chesaw Wildlife Area towards Buckhorn Mtn.

View looking west over the Chesaw Wildlife Area.

Out of the drainage behind our home in Chesaw

came a covey of seven Hungarian (Gray) Partridges

one morning to visit our compost pile this winter.

(Rick Gillespie)

They had a very interesting way 

of getting down the hill in the deep snow. 

They laid down on their bellies and 

slid down making these little slide marks in the snow.

Then just about three weeks ago when the snow had melted enough by our woodshed, 

three Hungarian Partridges were sunning themselves unbelievably close to our back door.