Mild. If you had to sum up December 2015 so far, that's the word. We have had some snow. By the end of last week though, only a faint echo of the white stuff remained.
Devils Lake and Wabikon started last week ice covered. By week's end, Wabikon began to open up.
If you look at the top of this image, it looked like Lake Riley had ice, too.
Squirrel! No...ice on Wabikon. It's not described as thick. The wise fisherman will wait until it's a wee bit thicker before driving over it to their ice shack.
There was a bit of peril where Knott Lane intersects West Shore Drive. The snow melted to slush and then froze making a treacherous twenty feet of trail.
The rest of Knott Lane is a piece of cake.
The mild weather made life a little bit easir for the WPS contractors as they went about demoting power poles to just plain poles.
Squirrel! No...WPS contractor rolling up power line.
By the end of the week, the only task remaining for WPS was the always entertaining pole plucking.
Squirrel! No...a deck view of the lake without the need to photoshop the power lines out. Huzzah!
There's still water in the creek! Plus, look at all the water frozen in the swamp across the road. Signs point to a deeper Lake Lucerne come Spring. Huzzah!
For the most part, only the reflection of lifts and piers remain on the lake.
Squirrel!
There was golf! With the snow gone and the temperature pushing past 40 F, nine holes became a moral imperative. That, plus parking was not a problem.
The tee boxes and fairways were in excellent shape for December.
What the greens lacked in flags they made up for with holes. There was one per green for each link on the front nine.
