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Sunset Lake & Autumn Colors
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Sunset Lake Rd., Pike County, PA. The lake & surrounding shores are all private property. Full spectrum color photo… 
© Sunset Lake
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Sunset Lake Rd., Pike County, PA. The lake & surrounding shores are all private property. Full spectrum color photo… 
Sunset Lake
▬▬▬▬▬▬ Sunset Lake Rd., Pike County, PA. The lake & surrounding shores are all private property. Full spectrum color photo… 
© Teal Boat House
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Sunset Lake, Sunset Lake Rd., Pike County, PA. The lake & surrounding shores are all private property. Full spectrum color photo… 
Beautiful Autumn Morning
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Sunset Lake Rd., Pike County, PA. Full spectrum color photo… 
Canadian Geese on Remnants of Sunset Lake
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Sunset Lake Rd., Pike County, PA. Full spectrum color photo… ✍ Spotted these geese on a man-made lake which has been shrinking very quickly... Just from the same period last year [2013], more than 70% of the lake is gone. By the same time next year [2015], it should be almost completely reclaimed and transformed by Mother Nature back into the grassland it once was. 
The Boathouse Outlived the Lake
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Sunset Lake Rd., Pike County, PA. Full spectrum color, high definition photo… ✍ Hard to believe, but just three years ago there was a HUGE manmade lake here (see companion photos). Not sure what caused it to dry out so quickly, but there are just a few shallow pools left here and there and I don't see those areas surviving for much longer either. I swear Mother Nature has a sense of humor --- a boathouse in the middle of a field?!? 
Late Summer Abundance
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Sunset Lake Rd., Pike County, PA. Full spectrum color, high definition photo… ✍ Three years ago, this was a very big man-made lake. All the greenery & flowers would've been underwater. All that is left presently are a few small shallow ponds of water which the plants are quickly encroaching on. Nature is reclaiming what was once hers and returning it to its natural state.... 
Sunset Lake Ducks & Turtles
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Sunset Lake Rd., Pike County, PA. See notes if you can't spot the turtles ;) Full spectrum color, high definition photo… ✍ Three years ago, this was a very big man-made lake. All the greenery & rocks would've been underwater. All that is left presently are a few small shallow ponds of water which the plants are quickly encroaching on. Nature is reclaiming what was once hers and returning it to its natural state.... I doubt the wildlife in this shot will find water here in another year (two at most).
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Photos chronicling the beauty and disappearance of the beautiful man-made lake known as Sunset Lake. It is unusual for a lake this size -- man-made or otherwise -- to vanish in three year's time. I guess nature has her own timetable, but the speed of the transformation is still stunning to me .... The photos are ordered chronologically by year; autumn 2013 - late summer/early autumn 2016.
