Surprise find near our house!

We were randomly driving through some of the historic neighborhoods about 2 miles from our house when we ran into a neat surprise! We turned into a little city park only to find out there was a small river with a old dam from a mill that use to exist 100 years ago! It was called Lassiter Mill. All that's left is the dam and some stone foundations from the mill:

The houses on the far side of the river had their own little docks and access to the pool above the dam and to the stream below the dam:

Notice in the picture above, the house backed up to the stream and there is an old bridge pier from a railroad that used to cross there. How cool is that!

The lower part below the dam is a mixture of rocks and sand. At one point the owner of the mill added a sandy beach for people to come visit his restaurant attached to the mill:

You can see the sand is starting to be replaced by the stream's rocks, but it is now part of the City Park and people can come down and relax to the sound of the waterfall and swim in the water or follow the greenway trail that parralles the stream downriver:

Here is Colleen walking along the lower stone wall below the dam:

It was a neat surprise to be only 2 miles from our house!

Then we came home and made a homemade pesto pizza! We made the pesto from scratch (using basil that Colleen grew in her garden!), grated the mozzerella cheese, sliced the tomatos, peeled the garlic cloves, and it was really tasty!