Becky and I went on a short photo safari Friday evening to the new Silver Lake Wildlife Management Area located in Southwest Decatur County. This is a 9,000 acre track of land that was previously owned by International Paper Company and is primarily long leaf pine trees and wire grass. There are several small lakes on the property the largest being Sivler Lake. The barn in the photo above is located at the old maintenance/office compound.



The photo on the left is taken from the dam that was built to raise the water level in Silver Lake. The lake was initially formed when Lake Seminole was created in 1957. It was very shallow and swampy so International Paper Company built a dam and this allowed the lake to fill above the water level of Lake Seminole.





As we were driving out through the tall pine trees Becky wanted to stop and take a picture of the sun setting through the pine trees so I took advantage of the moment and took a picture of her taking a picture of the sunset.

As we reached Yates Springs Road the sun was setting so we drove over to Chef Jay's Bristro for a very fine diner. Chef Jay sent a couple of his cinnamon rolls home with us so we would have them for breakfast. If was a very good evening.