Clear Lake Topics: Two visions of Progress, maybe
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copperline
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Two visions of Progress, maybe
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4/1/2006 11:18:08 PM
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Well, the lake is far enough up today. The wife & I got the pontoon boat into the water for the first time this year. Of course, pontoons aren?t really boats, they?re more like a motorized dock. Move that chair around for a better view. Stretch your legs & kick back on the lounger.
The first order of business on the first day of the season is always to check on that old rock wall up Ochachoy creek. I been looking at that wall and thinking about that road bed since I was a kid. Wondering hold old it is, just where it went, and about the old homesteads that are under the lake now. This time of year, leafed-out trees aren?t covering the sides of the hollow? You can see right up through the trees to the top of the slope and the edge of clearcut where nothing higher than your hips is growing. We try not to let our eyes roam that far up?. keep them low at the waterline where the azaleas are popping out, and dogwoods, and those bright yellow flowering vines snaking up in the bushes. I never can remember the name of that flower?..
No mountain laurel blooms yet. Another month or so before they explode on their slope.
We made our way up into Pitchford Creek where the newest phase of some new Russell development has claimed about a dozen of the old OD green cabins all along the north shore. Every single one of them. Gone. Not so much as a stick or a pier left standing among a handful of cabins where I spent summer weekends as a kid. We motored around toward the Scrushy place (that thing STILL reminds me of a La Quinta) to see the other side of the subdivision and counted 15 two- and three-story homes where 6 cabins stood a year ago. All of a sudden I am getting bummed out in a serious way.
We moped our way back to the cabin, pulled out a couple of old lawn chairs and started raking up the sweet gum balls before somebody breaks an ankle.
About that time we spotted the eagle. He was fully matured with that white crested head and a wing span of better than four feet. And he came crashing down into the water 100 yards off my pier to come up with a nice catch. It was absolutely astonishing. I never expected to see anything like that in Alabama. Not a Bald Eagle. No way. They?ve been gone a hundred years, and now I?m looking at one making off with a flippin? bass. So I?m better now. A little anyway. There?s nothing but memories left of those old green cabins. There?s a dozen three story houses barely spitting distance apart, each with a family of 4, a Mastercraft and two Jet Skis. I wonder if Pitchford Creek will look the same way next year.
But then there?s that eagle??.
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