| Travelling back and forth
between the camp site and the House on the Rock, we passed this place with a
display of wooden sculptures on the lawn. They were all quite natural
looking and some took quite a bit of looking at to work out what the were.
These fish were amongst the easier ones. |  |
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We also passed by the house 'Taliesin', the home of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Tours can be taken of the property which are organised from this visitor
centre. Unfortunately they only happen at weekends until the middle of May. |
| This is the FLW Farm
which I think is also part of the tour. Again it can be seen from the road. |  |
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This is the actual house although it is too far away and too well shielded
to be able to appreciate the finer points. It still looks fairly impressive.
We have visited other houses designed by him but we aren't serious students of
architecture. |
| The visitor centre stands
on the bank of the Wisconsin river which is quite a significant waterway at
this point. |  |
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This is the roadway (dead end) down to the campsite showing just how high
the water table is. When we first arrived the water almost covered the road.
I would not want to have stored anything in the storage garages just down
here on the left! |
| Admittedly the river is
high but this shot gives you some idea of the size of the Wisconsin river at
this point. The campsite runs canoe and rafting trips. They take you up to 30 miles
upriver so that you can come back over 2-3 days. |  |
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Another shot of the river which wants to be a lake..... |
| We travelled north from
Spring Green through the rolling southern Wisconsin farmland. Although
today many of the farms are centrally managed, there seems to be a farm with
a couple of silos every couple of hundred yards. Wisconsin is the dairy
state, so there are lots and lots of cows scattered over the hillsides. |  |
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They all look prosperous if a little waterlogged. This had been a very wet
spring after an exceptionally snowy winter with over 120 inches of snow
which had only departed within the last couple of weeks. |
| Some of the farms are
slightly larger but these are few and far between. |  |
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This was a bit of a surprise, we slowed down as we passed, which was
acknowledged by a wave which led us to suppose he wasn't real Amish but who
knows.... |
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