October's one day trip to Deep Creek

In early October we took a day trip again to Deep Creek area. We kinda followed the same plan as we did in September, but all in the same day. We headed out early in the morning.







We made our way down to Grantville area to pick up cinnamon rolls & sticky buns for breakfast. The Amish were out & about so I some pictures.

Deep Creek Lake

Picnicing at Swallows State Park.
Then we went hiking again of course!

Looking up river.
The water was so much higher than 10 days previously!
Apparently they had had a lot of rain.

Looking down river just below the main falls.

Tolliver Falls

We decided to check out the next state park down which was Herrington Manor State Park. That park was the original estate that the Garrett brothers lived on.



























Later, we took the boys into the little quaint town of Oakland. This was the same place Scott & I went. We enjoyed a nice walked around town.




























Scott had one of the boys take a picture of us in the gazebo near the old train station museum.









We are back at Deep Creek Lake to have dinner. We ended up getting a bucket of chicken wings & fries @ WalMart for a picnic dinner at a park by the lake. That's where this is.




























I was so pleased with how this picture turned out, because the scene was so colorful!













This day came to an end much too quickly, but we covered a lot of ground.
















After a very long day, we headed on home. This is a snapshot of Uniontown going down Summit hill. On a clear night, the lights look like jewels.

Bird bath

Besides the bird feeders, we take great pleasure in watching the birds "taking their bath". Here are some pictures I took this past summer of some of our feathered friends. Enjoy!

This was earlier in the summer, as you can see by the flowers.

This is my favorite one!

This guy looks like he has glasses on the top of his head.

Labor Day Weekend

I need to catch up on September's events & their pictures. Here is what Scott & I did Labor Day weekend.

Scott & my Get-Away weekend

While the boys went to youth camp, Scott & I have a get-away weekend. We hadn't done this since all the weddings & since he actually had the weekend off, we went for it. To save money we asked if we could use Scott's mother's place at Deep Creek. She was thrill to have us use it, so we headed down.


We just enjoyed our 1st afternoon there driving around the area.
We had a great time finding new things...









...and enjoying what we knew was there.

















The next day we got up early & headed up to Grantsville to get breakfast. Of course we got cinnamon rolls & sticky buns. We came upon this Amish buggy as we were leaving to head on over to Cumberland, MD to catch a train ride.








We had always planned on doing something like this, but never had. We were so excited!














This train ride went from Cumberland to Frostburg & back. It was so neat to ride on a train with an actual steam engine.























The conductor took our tickets & off we went, slowly chugging our way up the mountains.













Since it was a while before we got to our destination, we took a walk through the train to the last car. This was the snack car.











It was so cool to see out the back of the train!












We enjoyed many sights along the way. When we got to Frostburg, we had lunch while they turned the train around.










After lunch we re-boarded the train & headed back to Cumberland.







I think we enjoyed our trip back better. We decided to watch the scenery through the open windows. We could see more & we could watch the engine.
















We had great views on our way home. This one is on Rt. 219 just below Keiser's Ridge.




These were around the lake as it was getting dark.