Peak Color Summer
September 22nd through 29th   


It was warm last week. It was sunny last week. It was calm last week. The lake went from 63 F on Tuesday to 68 F on Sunday. That trend won't last, nor will this weather, but it was great while it was here.


There was no rain last week but water still remains in the creeks and streams around the lake. A few more inches of the wet stuff would be nice before ice-in.


Leaf color peaked last week. There were oranges.


Reds.

Yellows.
And mushrooms. We were told by a local super scientist that these are edible. We did not eat any.

The four armed, one eyed picture taker was punched through a hole in the tree canopy at Sugarbush Hill.
GPS lock was a little tetchy below the trees and power lines. At 324.3 feet, it had 10 satellites (6 are required to really stabilize it), 81% battery left, and plenty to see.

It's been almost a decade since we've set eyes (or feet) on the "Sponge Forest." This view is from twice as high as the old fire tower. You can even see Devil's Lake and Lake Lucerne.
Looking to the east, Wabikon and its island were just where we left 'em.

We took the drone down the road and flew it up over the NCC. There's a lot of water around the golf course.
It was surprising to see how close the 12th hole is to the public beach on Silver Lake.

After landing and packing it up, there was golf. Without jackets. In late September. Huzzah!
On Sunday, yesterday as this is written, there were skiers, kneeboarders, and footers sliding on the lake until sunset.

Just before 7PM , Sunday, September 28th, the sun set on Summer. I don't think we'll see air and water temperatures like last week's for eight or 9 months.
Pumpkin Carving is scheduled for Saturday, October 11th. The bar's deck is almost ready.


No Rain. We may have lost a half an inch of lake level, but it was worth it. We did lose almost a million pictures of the lake and that was not worth it. They were stored on another site of our's, wiwebcam.com. The company that hosts wiwebcam.com had given us some beef about using too much space in past years, but this time they meant it and they gave me a date of September 27th to relocate the pictures. I asked them for an extra week to off load the images. I guess the answer was no. Just after midnight on Sunday, September 27th, some drone at dotster deleted 3 years worth of images from the knottlane webcam. Boo! On the positive side they did not touch images stored from the Water's Edge and Memorial cameras. Work is being done on a local storage solution to prevent this from occuring again. **sigh**. There could be some more skiing and footing to be done, but we think that there will be even more boat and pier pulling in the next few weeks.

-Nemo, waterskiing for at least two more weeks.                                                                    Previous   Next