Yesterday’s clouds settled around the mountains and made for a interesting view over the lake from the spillway area.  The photo below looks like it has some sort of frost photo editing, but it was just the clouds and the reflection in the lake.

October 16, 2018 – the view from the Lake Tamarack spillway area

The passionflower vines in Bent Tree are loaded with fruit right now (see photo below).  They’re called Maypops because they “may pop” if you step on them.  It’s a good childhood memory.  The photo above was taken this summer and shows a couple of bees on the flowers.  When a bee goes for the nectar in the center of the flower, its back brushes on the anthers and gets coated with pollen.

Click here for a post from last year with a good picture of the flower that grows on the vine during the summer.  Click here for another post from last year that shows a fun thing to do with the flower.

October 14, 2018 – fruit on passionflower vine

• A new chef has been hired for Bent Tree’s restaurant.  The chef worked for many years at Big Canoe.  Click here to link to an old Smoke Signals article (from 2008) where the chef was recognized for his five years of service (up to that point…he obviously had many more years at Big Canoe after that).
• Three companies are expected to submit quotes to handle BTCI’s trash and recycling.
  • Waste Management
  • Santek Waste Services
  • Grogan Waste Services

BTCI’s Annual Membership Meeting will be held tomorrow (October 14, 2018) at 2:00 p.m. in the Club Tamarack Recreation Room.  The other meetings held throughout the year are meetings of the Board of Directors.  This one is an official meeting of the membership.

The article shown below is from a quarter-century ago, and is a summary of the October 10, 1993 Annual Membership Meeting.  That year, the members’ meeting lasted an hour and ten minutes.

November 1993 echo article

This spike buck passed by yesterday morning, before the sun was fully up, and stopped long enough for me to snap a picture.

October 11, 2018 – Spike in Bent Tree

A new sign:

October 9, 2018 – New sign at Admin building (click image to zoom)

Today marks the one year anniversary of Bent Tree’s current General Manager’s first day on the job.  Click here for a related post from last year.

Also, the second of two Budget (for 2019) Planning Open Forums is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. this evening, in the Club Tamarack Recreation Room (downstairs).

Can you find the hawk in the photo below?  If you need help finding it, click here.

October 7, 2018 – Hawk at Admin