To Carbondale

After visiting Blue Sky Vineyard, we headed north on Rocky Comfort road into the Crab Orchard Wildlife Refuge on our way to Carbondale. It's a very pretty and scenic drive. We stopped for a moment at Little Grassy Lake, a man-made lake created by the damming of Little Grassy Creek.



A View of the Lake

Afterwards, we checked into a Holiday Inn on the outskirts of town. The accomodations were okay, but the atmosphere is not comparable to staying at a cabin in the Giant City State Park.

Since we were in town (or closer), we decided to take a look at the Southern Illinois campus. Being in between semesters, the area seemed quiet and we parked to a look at the lake which is on campus. It's a nice little find. What was even nicer was sunset.

A front was moving through, pushing clouds ahead as the sun sank, creating one of the most gorgeous sunsets I've ever seen. The variety and depth of colors, as they reflected off the clouds, was simply amazing. I would like to say I have some photos, but we left the camera back in the hotel room. Instead, the moments will be a series of images that I will lock away in my memory.