I live very close to Schell Osage Wildlife Reserve 

I have a Schell City address but I really do not live in Schell City.

 I really live a few miles away out in the country.

There really is not a lot left of the small town. I believe it was once a railroad town 

and when the railroad moved on the town just more of less died.

As a kid I remember a hardware store, a small gro. store, a bank and a museum.

 The town still has a post office and a cafe or two and a bank but not a lot else.

I drive though the reserve once in a while.

My last trip through

I took some photos of Atkinson lake.

We are something like 14 inches behind in rainfall  so the lake is really low.

I am not sure I ever remember it being this low before.

In this photo I am standing at the edge of the road.

I can remember when the water would lap over onto the road.

It has not done that in a long time! and it looks like it might be a long time before it will again.

If you look closely in the distance is the road I was standing on in the earlier photo.

Lots of dry land.

It is sad to see the lake so low.

 As a kid I spent quite a bit of time on the reserve.

I was hoping to see some Eagles that day but all I saw was one field of snow geese.

I sat and listened to them chatter for a bit before I moved on. 

Just another area that should have more water in it.