Chautauqua Lake

Amazing sunsets. Amazing fireworks. Amazing people. This lake is beautiful and serene and amazing in the summertime.

I’ve been bike riding around this crazy lake all day long. Morning, noon & night. I have yet to get sick of how gorgeous it truly is!
*Insert Sir Edgar Allan Poe:
In spring of youth it was my lot
To haunt of the wide earth a spot
The which I could not love thee less –
So lovely was the loneliness
Of a wild lake, with black rock bound,
And the tall pines that tower’d around.
But when the Night had thrown her pall
Upon that spot, as upon all,
And the mystic wind went by
Murmuring in melody –
Then — ah then I would awake
To the terror of the lone lake.
Yet that terror was not fright,
But a tremulous delight –
A feeling not the jewelled mine
Could teach or bribe me to define –
Nor Love — although the Love were thine.
Death was in that poisonous wave,
And in its gulf a fitting grave
For him who thence could solace bring
To his lone imagining –
Whose solitary soul could make
An Eden of that dim lake.