Memories Of My Gram's Lake House

Memories are so Precious to Me!

Lake Huron
Lexington, Michigan
My Gram's Lake Home 
 ... and lots of red roses
blue waters and 
LOVE

Memories
   

My Sweet Gram

   My favorite memories are from my childhood and going to Gram's house

the beautiful  blue sky and water

my dad and sisters and cousins
swinging together by the lake

The Lake Birch Trees

we lived in Michagan
our first house was small but filled with relatives and fun times!

Grandma Gignac far left,
maureen, Sandy Me and Janet and my Mom
 I am the scowling little girl
  my sister Maureen's First communion Celebration (1962)

There's my mom and dad and my Gram Shaughnessy's
walking down to the lake from her house.
Don't you just love that blue dress my Mom is wearing? 

My Beautiful Mother, Margaret 

My cousin Barb and me at Grams

Playing whiffle ball
I have the beautiful bowl cut

a day at the Family beach 

Me and Barbie my cousin and friend

Sister and cousin

back when they made metal sand pails

Back when everyone bathed the baby in the kitchen sink!
I think that is me.
I love my Bubble Baths to this day!

Gram and some cousins in the fall doing leaf clean up!

our tire swing

 The highlight of my memories is my grandparents lake home on Lake Huron

...I mean right on Lake Huron

they had a little sandy and stony beach front that the aunt, uncles, cousins

 would all visit in the summer and fall and enjoy together. 

dad, walking on the beach 

Back of house

Gram tending her flowers
See her green rain barrel?
We kids would get a dousing of rainwater to get the sand off of us after a day on the beach.
I  hated the cold rain water shower in my birthday suit no less!

 Lots of good memories even though I was very young

 I can remember so much.

 It is amazing!  

Grandpa died right before I was born so I never knew him .  

Gram kept the lake house for awhile then sold it. 

 I never understood why they didn't keep it in the family 

 why didn't the relatives all pitch in and buy it together? 

 Mom in the blue dress and aunt and cousins and sisters
I'm not in this photo 

Great Aunt Meme
emptying the sand out of her shoes/ or are they boots?

Grandpa and lots of the cousins

My Sister

my dad sitting on the stony beach

aunts...birch trees ...my favorite trees

Oh Those Beautiful Roses
Janet and JoanE

 The old house full of great memories,

 and the lake

so blue and mysterious 

spectacular to just look at. 

 ships far off on the horizon, 

large boulders sticking out of the beach and into the water.

 The sounds of laughter, 

the good times the smells

 (peaches, fresh ground coffee...just the smell of the old house!)

 The beauty of the place is overwhelming to me. ..... and I miss it

KAT

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Why I like Nature Art and Nature in General

 

Why I Love  Art, Color, and Texture... and all of Nature

My Grand- parents had a wonderful lake house when I was very young. it was a perfect piece of land right on Lake Huron, in Michigan, in the Lexington area.  My family would spend summer and fall vacations there.  My best memories all seem to involve thinking about those days and those smells even though I was so very young.

...coloring on the screened front porch at the big round oak table, crayons grabbed from the  cigar box and we had piles of coloring books.

reading little golden books in the fancy parlor in the mauve colored wing chair by the book case secretary.  I remember "Little Black Sambo" and how he loved pan-cakes just like ME! and "The Little Red Hen" (Why wouldn't anyone help her?)

 and bed-time ,..listening to the English type chimes from the clock on the shelf  (just like the Westminster chimes)

The smells of fresh cut juicy peaches (Michigan peaches), that I loved to have sliced onto my Rice Krispies, with  creamy milk (no skim or one percent here)

sunny warm days of flip flops, bathing suits  suit ( Gram called them bathing suits) my sons hate when I use the term " bathing suits" for their swim suit ...I don't know why

The big  grapefruit sack of beach toys - metal bright colored pails and shovels, sand sifters and various toys and blow up  black tire inner-tubes

making shell necklaces with tread and needles and little tiny lake shells (they make a great sound when you shake them)

getting rinsed off with rain water from the big rain barrel by the back door (no sand in gram's house)

birch trees  right by the lake shore next to Gram's beach(a forest of them) they make the most wonderful sound when the breeze blows through the leaves

( so peaceful and wondrous)!

I have always appreciated Nature and all it gives, to all of us. I wish more people could  just enjoy nature and realize how wonderful Nature is. ( take better care of it all.) I know there would be peace on our planet if everyone on it would just see how miraculous the place is and appreciate each other more.