Martinsville Bulletin Photo contest

Everybody dig up your best shots of Henry Co. Only 125 shots were entered last year. You can enter up to 3 shots per person and only amateur photographers. I have my favorite picked out but I'll be throwing in 2 more just for good measure.
Just in case ya'll are wondering where I've been, my sister loaned me her Wii
I've bowled golfed and fished my brains out on the thing. I love it. It's very user friendly especially toward the older genaration. Easy to connect to tv and easy on screen instruction as to how to play;hold the remote and the best thing is it gets you off the couch.Fishing and sports are my favorite games. Don't care much for the Mario stuff type games. Guess I out grew them.
And for Christmas she gave me the coolest thing. It's the Kodak EasyShare digital picture frame.
It also was easy to hook up. She also bought me a data card and card reader which is also easy to hook up. I just don't know a whole lot about a computer so to get started My brother-in-law Buck came up last night and reconnected my router and showed me how to load my data card with pics. So cool a gadget you won't believe. Kodak EasyShare digital picture frame.

6 months old

Cooper continues to grow. and grow and grow.

View from up top...

The photo above is of the centuries old land mark, Buffalo Mtn. And the one above that is Leslie

Shealor's Greenberry House. By the way thank you for the linky-love Leslie ! I'm loving the new blog,"Life in Meadows of Dan" The rest of the pics are Lovers Leap and the old zoo.

I took a little trip to Hillsville tuesday with my husband and like most men it's hard to get him to slow down for anything. I myself have more work than time. It's been a long time since I last posted but I promise to pick up the slack.

Playing with Pearl

Fairystone and Philpott Lake Overlook.

Fall's colors are starting to blush the edges of the lake here at the Philpott Overlook. Water looks a bit low/normal for this time of year.

Corps stresses the facts: One big rain can’t fix a drought!
A week ago, October 25th-27th, relief appeared to be arriving in North Carolina and South Central Virginia as a major wet weather system blessed parched areas with a long, soaking downpour. Cameras throughout the region captured wings of water spray flying up from car wheels and shining beads of water dripping from pine needles. Dry stream beds bubbled merrily with water and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers water control managers anxiously watched lake levels creep up—just a little.
Mike Moneypenny, of the National Weather Service, called the welcome rain a ‘Rogue Storm,’ technically described as a ‘cut off low’ that became stalled by surrounding pressure patterns and stayed put to drop rain for an unusually long time. Then Moneypenny said, ‘nothing more is coming!’ The drought is not over.
“We all bought time with this rain,” said Wilmington District’s water control manager Terry Brown. “The Corps lakes have all benefited, but none are back up to guide curve, and stream flows are already dropping back.” To give an idea of the extent of the benefit from this rain, Brown showed the region-wide water management group a series of graphs charting the forecast downward trend of water in the lakes. After a brief bump upward from the rain, the graphs all are expected to sink back down, reaching their before-the-rain level on different dates depending on how much benefit the lakes had received and the types of uses expected for the water.
Philpott Lake rose 2.3 feet, but will be back to its pre-storm level by about December 3 if no more rain arrives.
“Long term forecasts continue to indicate that a dry winter and spring still could lie ahead of us,” said Wilmington District Water Control Manager Terry Brown. “We and all those who depend on the water in these lakes are grateful that we have some added time to find the best way to stretch our resources,” he said. “But we recognize that we got a little breathing space, not a rescue!”

Fall's here and so is the rain!!

Here's the last picture I took of the summer's green leaves. Hopefully over the next few days I fill this blog full of fall color photos. That is if the rain let's up. Already over 4 inches here in the Bassett/Sanville area. I wonder about my sister down in Ridgeway. Their weather is usually drasticly different than mine.

Da Blimp

Race Day Martinsville Speedway

I like tractors....

This is a Ford 601 Workmaster. Man said it was a 60'ish model year.

This place fascinates me...

Philpott Dam

Smith river as it leaves Philpott Lake.

Top view of Dam from the lake overlook.

A Philpott Shot

Took this photo friday afternoon. Look at the Blue Ridge. Philpott Dam photos , I'll wait and post them later on .

Happy Bithday Lisa

Fishing on Philpott

Done a little fishing on Philpott lake here while back. Caught a few fish and threw them all back. You'll see us riding mom's pontoon boat in the video.We've affectionately named her the "Philpott Princess"

Fairystone Park

Fishing Fairystone State Park