September 30th - Sunday - Cloudy mild day
After a wonderful church service with our Pastor Keith Diehl, which we give God praise for daily, we feel so blessed for he and his wife. He suffers from many physical problems; however, week after week he is there for us with a sermon that enlightens our week. We are looking forward to the month of October as we are going to be studying the book of Job and he has asked all of us to read the book. I hope everyone takes the challenge and does as he has asked. Lou and I plan to do that, in fact we have read up to chapter seven so far.
We left church and drove to Antrim and then to Morris and made our way to Waterville. We had read about the new display that was open to the public at The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and thought it would be interesting to see it.
The drive was beautiful, we drove through Little Pine Creek and stopped for lunch at a restaurant and enjoyed a wonderful lunch, that we found we could not finish, I think it was the best Bleu Cheese burger I have ever eaten and they made their own potato chips and the coffee was delicious, just a great meal. We had a hard time finding the DCNR as we did not have reception with our OnStar , so we had to stop and ask directions, but eventually found the place and it certainly was worth the drive.
The working model railroad that shows what the timber harvesting looked like in the Pine Creek Valley at the turn of the century and interprets the lumbering heritage of the region was Lou's favorite.
There was a 180 gallon aquarium featuring our state fish, the brook trout, as well as other stream dwellers.
A interpretive display of the many large birds common to the skies of the Pine Creek Valley
A Pine Creek flora and fauna display with touch screen that provide information, about the plants and animals of the region, this was something I really enjoyed, I learned that King Fishers nested in the ground.
An observation deck, this is where they took the picture of Lou and me, that interprets the green roof and native plants used for landscaping and features viewing scopes as well as a log slide replica similar to those used to transport logs down the steep hillsides at the turn of the century.
All in all it was a wonderful afternoon that we spent there. We came back up route 414 to Morris and came out in Blackwell, arriving home just before dark. It was a good day. We have both been at home for some time, while Lou's hip was healing, so we enjoyed our day out.
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