Serene Sunday

Field of yellow day lilies along I40 on the way home from our mini vacation in Mid June

Many years ago, NC, Started a highway beautification project.  Fields of wildflowers and lilies are scattered on the interstates. Usually in open fields near on and off ramps.  I fear the fields are slowly disappearing due to the need for bigger and better roads.  Now we see more fields of the orange and white construction barrels.

A small section of Jordan Lake.  Photo also taken on our way home from our mini vacation in Mid June:

Here are a few facts about Jordan Lake which is about 40 miles from our home

B. Everett Jordan Lake is a reservoir in New Hope Valley, west of Cary and south of Durham in Chatham County, North Carolina, in the United States; the northernmost end of the lake extends into southwestern Durham County.

Part of the Jordan Lake State Recreation Area,^[1] the reservoir covers 13,940 acres (5,640 ha) with a shoreline of 180 miles (290 km) at its standard water level of 216 feet (66 m) above sea level. It was developed as part of a flood control project prompted by a particularly damaging tropical storm that hit the region downstream in September 1945. Constructed at an original cost of US $146,300,000, it is owned and operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which dammed and flooded the Haw River and New Hope River between 1973 and 1983.