Droning On Into Fall

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 Surprise 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.

Peak color! Time to get in that last golf round, pull in the raft, wax the downhill skis, change the oil in the snowblower, and find a hat. And get the Annual Lake Lucerne Ice-In Contest up. It would have been up this week, but half the knottlane staff was hit with the pesky nose cold that's apparently sweeping the mid-west like a zombie apocalypse. Only with tissues instead of shotguns.

-Nemo, boring tiny holes in the Forest County sky since 2014

Droning On Into Fall

October 6th through 12th , 2015