Tygart Lake State Park--a beautiful place. The lake is stupendous, a deep blue-green color and over 5 miles long. A park employee told us that last year a bear would come down the mountain on one side of the lake, swim across, then climb up the mountain on the other side. There could only be one explanation for the bear's behavior--obviously he was cross-training!
View from the dining room at the lodge.Grandson James was celebrating his 6th birthday Saturday. So we met our son Aaron, his wife Jaime and children James and Michaela at Tygart to celebrate. The food was great, and it was a good place for birthday cake!
The birthday boy enjoys his cake!
Still working on it!
Down at the lake, we all dangled our feet in the water.
When we left Tygart, we visited downtown Grafton. I wanted to see how renovations were progressing at the old train station. It's a real beauty that was almost forgotten until somebody applied for funds to restore it. Thank goodness.
I kept hearing the soft release of...brakes? Steam? I looked behind the old train depot when we stopped there in Grafton, WV and there was a CSX train. The station is no longer open, but the train sitting there on the tracks certainly made me think of the old days when this might have been a bustling place.
Detail over the entrance to the station. A federal grant is making renovations possible. The interior, glimpsed through the windows, is really something--marble columns, wide floors, high ceilings.
Aahhh... I love the picture of James!
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