Sulphur River Gallery 23
Lydia
Leaving Dalby Springs, one arrives
at US 259. Road 561 continues across the highway as the same road
that one takes to reach Dalby, Mount Zion, Cedar Creek and the
Shumake Ranch. I turned right, north, onto US 259 for two miles,
and then I turned left, northwest, onto the country road shown
here. From US 259 to Lydia is about six miles. The historic community
and cemetery of New Hope is located east of this road, about halfway
to Lydia. Essentially, what I'll be doing in the next few galleries
is taking you on a photographic tour of what is proposed to be
the "north shore" of the new reservoir. Some of this
land will be underwater, but it is rather difficult to determine
the exact shoreline of the proposed reservoir. "Through Traffic"
along these country roads would be a casualty of the lake.
Is this scenic, or what?!
About one mile west of Lydia on
Road 44, there is a country road similar to the one pictured above.
It goes south to the Shumake Ranch and Cedar Creek Church, the
same road pictured in previous galleries. That "Cedar Creek
Road" would cease to exist, submerged by lake-water.
Wildflowers like milkweed and black-eyed
susans flourish along all the roads of Northeast Texas in the
springtime. Thousands of acres of wildflowers would be destroyed
by this totally artificial reservoir.
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