On a rainy Thursday, November 6th the Saline County Historical Society came out to Marylake for a tour. The biggest change around here since 1935 is the cars which bring people to the monastery. Oak trees have grown, pines have died, but the driveway (now paved) is the same, as is the building since it's construction in 1926 when the stones were hauled in by mules from Pinacle Mountain. Jim Krueger used the occasion to take pictures around our grounds while his wife Marlo took my tour of the inside. Jim's Nikon D300 with zoom lens, managed to capture the beauty of Marylake in the fall. The Dogwood leaves were a bright red while the sweet gum was just beginning to turn to its yellow stars of autumn. The bridge to the cemetery always draws photographers, whether as a background or as an object of interest in itself. Our cemetery was constructed on the ninth hole of the original golf course. Fr. Herman built the bridge in the '60s to span the lagoon that separates the monastery from the cemetery. Before the bridge, we had to jump from rock to rock to get across the lagoon.