There were no hard frosts last week. There was also no ice, no snow, and less sun. The shorter days are easier to accept with no frost, ice, or snow.
When the sun was up, its light felt a little cooler. Still...no frost, ice, or snow, so yay! And peak color arrived!
The sun did not come out at all last Thursday. Friday's sun danced on a lake made one inch deeper by all the rain.
The slightly deeper lake is also slightly cooler.
Later in the week, the Gorge of Eternal Peril was filled in by brave men with shovels and a truckload of dirt.
We took advantage of mostly windless, sunny days last week to make tiny holes in the sky and get a better feel for peak color..
It looked pretty peaky to us.
Trees in the big city seemed to be a little pre-peaky.
Some lakes are easier to survey than others. You don't have to pull back so far to get all of Suprise Lake in one shot.
Lake Metonga is huge. That's all we've got to say about that
Back at Lake Lucerne, there were some of us that lamented pulling the ski boat last week.
During all the hole making and lamenting, ink caps (Coprinopsis atramentaria) kept popping up through the bar's lawn. You can have them if you want them.
