Seven Shades of Gray

Lake Lucerne is at that part of the season where Deep Winter and Thaw are starting to fight for control and throwing a bunch of gray into the sky while they scuffle.

Thaw won the early round, as evidenced by the emerging road. It's been weeks since the Potawatomi Trail pavement has poked above the snow and ice. Coefficients of static friction went from close to zero to about five on local traction-o-meters.

Then we got some snow. And cold.

Knott Lane is all you would expect it to be this time of year; white and treacherous.

The bottle rocket war forts are just over 3 weeks old and are still standing. Mostly. The wind and brief warm-up knocked down a wall and have induced some general tippy-ness.

There's 5.5 inches of snow on top of 2 inches of slush on top of 13.5 inches of ice covering the lake.

The last seven days were gray. We didn't get the drone up last week due to wind, snow or general grayness. We'll try to get it back into the sky next week. The forecast calls for snow, which is good. The 2 inches of blowing and drifting snow we got last week was enough to make some roads unpleasant, but not enough to make snowmobilers happy. The last thing anyone wants are grumpy snowmobilers.

-Nemo, always pleasant, never grumpy.

Seven Shades of Gray

January 27th through February 2nd, 2015