The Lake Tomahawk dam in June

 

Hopefully soon the orange fencing will come down.

This natural pump may be to a deeper well than just the water in the lake. I wasn't aware that it was there before the renovation of the dam. (Though previous photos do include it!)

The grass has taken root on most of the dam, which now has concrete reinforcement under it all!

 People are not being encouraged to walk up or down the dam on this slope.

Here are some shots of the iron reinforcement being placed back in April. It looks like they scraped the ground then gave it a gravel bed with this blue screen over it. 

Photo by Bob Nagan on FB

Photo from FB

From the Recreation Center

From the Recreation Center by me

I thought I'd published photos from May of the concrete being poured into concrete blocks laid on the dam with reinforcing iron holding them in place. So here are some of those photos...

The amazing red crane is actually an arm of a power hose which delivers wet concrete wherever the crew indicates.

At the top is a trough of concrete, and going down the slope you can see the various concrete blocks.

Later, more dirt put on top, then grass cloth to start grass growing (I wonder if that cloth disolves over time.

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Today's quote:

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Hodge Podge day

 

Thanks to Facebook!

I love the dancing figure hanging from the back balconies of the Black Mountain Center for the Arts. However, she is hanging by the neck...which gives a rather negative connotation to "what you'll end up with if you're an artist!"

There are days like that!

Hwy 221 North in front of the John English Farm in North Cove, North Carolina. near Linville Caverns, 1930 and 2022. I've travelled that road many times on day trips to Linville Falls. From Black Mountain we go east on I-40 to Old Fort, then on US 70 to Marion, and turn north on 221 where it intersects.

Huge photo of a NY Delli in our recently opened Zelle's Delli in Swannanoa. It's food may be made mostly in-house, but we found it about a 3 star outfit...though lots of people showed up in lines after we'd received our order shortly after they opened. My Rueben was just ok, friend's pastrami had the same result, as well as friend's roast beef. 

Two views of the dam at Lake Tomahawk from the car this week. I was too tired from exercise to walk down there to get more photos. Looks like they should be planting something in the dirt next.

Today's quote:

This is a time of transformation, and transformation comes not out of scarcity but out of the context of possibility, responsibility, and sufficiency.

LYNNE TWIST

Lake Tomahawk and approaches to it - April 2024

 Driving to the Tomahawk Senior Center, I was thrilled at the springtime beauty. Here are shots through the car window, on a day when I could stop without traffic behind me!

And construction continues, but the lake is refilled to it's normal level. The dam is still off limits, so no walking around on the 0.55 mile loop, just walk halfway then back. 

From the top of the stairs at the Lakeview Center, 4.20.24

Below the dam, 4.22.24 Photo by James Polling

And from on top of the dam at the barricade, by Bob Nagan, 4.23.24

View from by the lake 4.22.24

View from top of stairs at Lakeview Center 4.22.24

Today's quote:

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. 

-Edward R. Murrow, journalist (1908-1965)

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