Picnic at Fenton Lake

Well our church had a picnic potluck at Fenton Lake last night. It was so beautiful to be in the mountains and cool! However, the Park Ranger said that in 10 years the lake will be gone! There was a fire in the area about 5 years ago and all of the ashes & mountain are sliding into the lake (not really a lake I would call it a good pond!). So they think it will take about 10 years for this silt to fill the lake. When we were there you could see where the silt has taken over. You could also see where the fire had gone to in this area. Scott, our minister & my boss, gathered up some loose wood and some of it was already charred and used it to light a beautiful fire in the fireplace in the shelter. That's him playing the guitar and you can just see on the edge of the picture the rock fire place that they built! We were in this beautiful wood shelter that looked pretty new! I believe they also made some of the tables that we used for the picnic. Our church is small but we had a good group! Mom & I were the last ones to get there! Next year I must leave earlier! We had a great time. It was decided that next year we will start earlier during the day. No one wanted to drive mountain roads in the dark to go home! Also we hope to find a place to have the picnic that is closer to us but still in the mountains! It was about an hour and a half drive from Rio Rancho to get to Fenton Lake. I loved the drive and have been known to drive long distances to do crazy things but most of the people I know don't like to drive! (Crazy huh!)