Peak Color Week

We got a lot of sun (yeah!) but little (no) rain (boo!). The lake continues to drop close to new lows . I'm looking into purchasing a monsoon. I'll go as high as ten dollars. Anyone else care to chip in?

The nights are getting seasonably cool. Many a wood burning stove was called to action. The lake area smelled of campfires and Autumn leaves in the early morning.

The water temperature is hovering around 62°F or, as we started to call it, sixty blue (named for the pallor of swimmers and skiers as they emerge from the ice cold, crystal clear water).

The sugar-men have mined a full load of wood for the 2013 Maple Syruping Season (think next March).

It's getting to be that time of year. The smart among us have pulled their lifts and piers from the colder and colder water.

Peak color occurred on Saturday, September 29th.

It was one of the better displays. Reds, golds and yellows dominated the local painter's pallet.

Along with the colors came a bit of warmth (think 60°F-70°F) and some very still water.

All that flat goodness called for massive amounts of skiing,

pounds of footing,

tons of kneeboarding,

and new foodstuffs . Who would have thought that a balanced Fall diet includes energy drinks and ibuprofen as a necessary, tasty and wide base of the Fall food pyramid. Plus there's the free stuff! Well, in truth, the ibuprofen isn't very tasty.

We need rain. Now. I'd guess that the evaporation rate has dropped with the lake temperature, so we may not be losing lake level as fast as August, but still, we really need some rain. I'd take snow at this point and not complain (too much). A lone loon seems to be fishing the north end much more that any human fishermen. While diving, we saw that the fish are off the cribs, gone to wherever the fish disappear to this time of year.

-Nemo, sore but going for one more run

Peak Color Week

September 21st through October 1st, 2012