The farm pond at Prairie Park has belonged to the city since before we came to the neighborhood in 1978. Somehow it got the name "Mary's Lake." Maybe that was the farm wife- or the daughter... This view is toward the southwest where the stone farmhouse once sat just past the end of the dam.
I remember in Eudora before we had 5 kids being totally frozen and in pain after a short sketching walk. It was about 20 degrees that day. I still do stuff like that today as you can see from the notes on this sketch. The ol' stone farmhouse used to sit on the horizon where you see the crane boom in this drawing. The lake has frozen and thawed at least twice since then; here it was in the process of freezing the first time, so you can see reflections in the water not frozen yet.
The problem with marker ink in this sketch pad is that it shows through the thin paper from behind as you can tell in this photo.
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