our lake is gone

I looked out the window the other day and noticed the lake looked a little low despite a bunch of spring rain.  Every few hours, I noticed it looked even lower.  Soon I realized it was being drained.  We still don't know why exactly, but we assume the home owner's association did it on purpose for some reason.  It's been empty for almost a month.

So our beautiful lake that used to look like this...

Now looks like this...

UGLY! It looks like a waste land. (luckily it doesn't smell bad).

I miss the water.  And I feel so bad for the animals.  At first, we'd see fish flopping in the little puddles.  But they're all gone.  Now just the turtles, ducks, and geese are left.  They move around in the mud and gather in the little puddles.

They used to swim around...

But now they have to walk...

When I was looking back trying to find pictures of the lake, I came across these in a folder entitled "deck photo shoot".  I had to post them.  ha-ha.

The real star of the photo shoot was Willa, of course.  She is 8 months old in these pictures.