Wow! Look at the size of this creature! Looks like it is big enough to eat someone alive! Ever seen it before? Can you tell us where it resides (so that we can avoid that area?) Figure all this out and send your guess to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
The recent Mystery Photo was easily spotted by several people. Bob Foreman of Grayson sent in: “The photo is of Lake Como in northern Italy, very near Switzerland. I am not sure which country the photo shows. Beautiful place, and I would love to visit it sometime.” The photo came from Dick LoPresti of Berkeley Lake who said: “That’s the photo I took in Varenna, Italy, a beautiful little town on Lake Como. We spent a week there with our daughter back in 2019. Thanks for the memory.”
George Graf of Palmyra, Va. came in with: “Varenna is a comune on Lake Como in the Province of Lecco in Italy. My wife and I have completed many road trips to the Italian Lake District to visit each of the lakes on separate trips. With the beautiful coastlines and backdrop of the Alps, this place is very special. On Lake Maggiore are the colorful flowered islands of the Borromee, which is an easy boat ferry trip. We also enjoyed Lake Orta which is a quiet small lake with very few tourists, but very relaxing.”
Others identifying the photo were Lou Camerio of Lilburn; Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. He added: “To the right of the photo is the belfry (i.e. bell tower) of the Church of San Giorgio, and the yellow building in the left foreground is the Gardens of Villa Cipressi. The Gardens of Villa Cipressi is a complex of buildings and gardens, built between 1400 and 1800. In 1980, the property was purchased by the Municipality of Varenna, and is now used as a renowned hotel, restaurant and convention center. The gardens are open to the public and, as can be seen in the photo, are characterized by stairways and terraces sloping down to the lake with numerous plant species.”
Idyllic setting: From the camera of Polly Burnett of Flowery Branch comes this idyllic photograph of a sunset over Lake Lanier. The relatively cool spring temperatures makes an outing on the lake an enjoyable experience at this most-visited Corps of Engineers lake.
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