Water flows through the concrete dam past the ruins of the turbine house at Paradise Springs. Located near Eagle, Wisconsin in the Kettle Moraine State Forest, Southern Unit, the dam and ruins are part of the Paradise Springs Nature Trail. The area once had a resort hotel with a tennis/shuffleboard court, a small horse track, a spring water bottling plant, and a copper domed fieldstone spring house. Once stocked with brook trout, the pond drained due to a structural failure beneath the dam in 2015. The dam was repaired and, at 500 gallons per minute, the spring has refilled the pond and it is close to capacity once more.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. -- Henry David Thoreau This shot was taken in the White Pines State Forest near Oregon, Illinois March 25th, 2012.
Enter this wild wood and view the haunts of nature" is the inscription above the entrance to the Seven Bridges Trail in Grant Park, South Milwaukee. As one leaves, the inscription reads "May the God given peace of this leafy solitude rest upon and abide with thee."
