Pewaukee Lake is a major focal point of this small-town community. In the winter, there's ice fishing and snow-mobiling; in the summer, it's a haven for swimming, sailing, boating, water-skiing, and fishing. There's a community beach party in June, Independence Day fireworks in July, and "Taste of Lake Country" in August.
These views look east down Wisconsin Avenue, which borders the north side of the lake. The Lakefront Park beach is on the right and cute shops & restaurants line the left side. [Watch for shop postings in the coming days.]
This little plane was the only one out when I drove by the Capitol Drive Aerofield the other day. It's a small airport for recreational pilots and the landing strips are still mostly grass. You can learn to fly there, too!
Wisconsin may be the dairy state, but around here, there are also quite a few people who own horses. As noted within this blog, there are horse farms all over Waukesha County, where "city folk" can board horses and come to visit and ride at their leisure. I'm just a casual observer, but I believe our neighbor's green copper weather vane illustrates the point.
I snapped this while waiting at a stoplight on Good Hope Rd. in Menomonee Falls on my way home from work. The sun is always directly in my eyes for my drive home, so I welcome cloudy days sometimes :-) -- But this time the sun was bobbing and weaving in and out of the clouds as it set.
See all SkyWatch Friday entries here.
This little abandoned cabin stands next to an old farmhouse on Silver Spring Rd. The barn has been torn down and the pasture converted to a McMansion subdivision. So goes the world. Note the woodpecker knotholes above the front window. On the left-hand side of the photo below you can see it still has a tiny outhouse - albeit, doorless!
Yet another horse farmstead I pass on my way to work each day. I took these photos while at a stop sign at Weyer Rd. and Hwy K. My first shot was the one above - which includes the full height of the barn - but appears to show the horses in a compromising pose! I had to wait my turn until the car ahead of me turned the corner so I could drive forward to get a slightly different angle (below.)
We could all use a little "L'Money" now-a-days. This is another of my railroad car graffiti shots, which appears to have been done back in 2006 with the curious message of "[Chris] You ain't goin' no where." Click the graffiti tag below to view others in the series.
A new multi-sports arena is slated to be put on this spot on the east end of Lindsay Road in the next few years. The house that stood along with this old barn was burned down last fall in a fire-training exercise for local firefighters, and then subsequently demolished (see ruble at left.) The barn has been stripped of its' collectible exterior barn-boards and now stands as a condemned shell. It will no doubt be demolished soon. Kind of sad to see the end of an era in this once very rural community.
This is old St. Mary's Catholic Church - located in the village on Wisconsin Ave., just west of the lake. There is also a small cemetery next to it, and the on-site school is still in use. It was recently replaced by Queen of Apostles (seen here in an earlier post) - but it still has a beautiful, old-fashioned appeal.
