Marblehead Lighthouse, Ohio

This is an image from a warmer time in the early Fall, September to be specific. I am going to try and re-start my small blog 3 days a week. At least that is my hope. A simple picture and maybe a few words surrounding the image. My wife and I love the "Northcoast" of Ohio. That is to say the shore of Lake Erie. This lighthouse is located on the Marblehead peninsula about 40 miles west of Cleveland and about the same distance from Toledo. The season on the Lake is very short maybe in a good year about 3 months. It gets cold and blustery in late summer and early Fall. Very windy around the lake but on good days it is beautiful. I grew up on Lake Erie in a suburb about 13 miles west of Cleveland, Bay Village, Ohio. A lovely suburb with green leafy lawns that are cut and manicured by the owners weekly. We moved to Bay in 1954 and my family bought a small (about 1000 square foot) house with the GI Bill. My Father was like all fathers during the 50s was a WW II veteran and qualified for the subsidized interest rate. We stayed in the house about 6 years before we moved to a larger house in the middle of Bay. Our house was located about one-half a mile from the Lake. The Lake was our playground. The beach was Huntington Beach which was great in the early 50's. However by the late 50's and early 60's it became too polluted to swim. The Clean Water Act was not passed until 1972 which went a long way to cleaning up the rivers and streams that fed the Lake. More to follow.