Mushrooms at Land Between the Lakes

I love to find small things in nature to photograph. On a nature trail near the campground at Land Between the Lakes I found a wealth of mushrooms. Here are some of the pictures.

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The Iron Works

There is iron ore here in the Land Between the Lakes and there were iron works in the 1800”s. Most of the ore played out and the works were abandoned. We toured one area where iron was made. They used iron ore, charcoal, and limestone to make pig iron. This is a picture of the structure they used to make charcoal. The outside is clay covering the wood inside. This is a cut away of the structure.

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The Nature Preserve

All of the animals in The Nature Preserve are rescue animals. All have been injured and cannot live on their own in the wild. There is a good cross-section of wildlife native to the area. It was a very hot day when I visited and you can see one of the workers trying to cool off the Screech Owl.

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The Home Place

One of the attractions here in the Land Between the Lakes Recreation Area is an 1850’s living farm. There are two houses on the farm. The first one built is a basic 2-room house, one room up and the other down. The later house is much bigger with 3 room down and 2 rooms up. There are living history actors on site to tell you about life in the 1850’s. The gardens, outbuildings, and animals that were present in 1850 are all present on the farm. One of the unexpected treats on my visit was seeing Mother Skunk and her five babies outside their den. You can see her leading all the babies back into the den in the picture.

The Home Place is in Kentucky. We stayed in a campgound in Tennessee.