Monday, 9:15 AM. 16.5 degrees, wind W, variable. The channel is crawling and there is a bit of lake effect snow blowing about. The sky is mostly cloudless. A new high literally “blew in” on strong winds twenty minutes ago, but things have since calmed down. The barometer predicts sunny weather.
Yesterday, tired of the weather keeping us Bayfield bound, Joan, Lucky and I got in the pickup and toured the winter wonderland countryside, everything frozen in place. We decided to take a ride out to Cornucopia, a tiny village on the lake twenty miles from Bayfield. Hwy 13 was pretty much snow packed and frozen, so the four-wheel drive was very welcome. “Corny,” as it is known locally, has a few village houses, a marina and fish store, Fishlips tavern, Ehler’s General Store (a true treasure, offering everything from nuts and bolts to home made pizza), a post office, three churches, including a little domed Russian Orthodox settler’s church, and our favorite restaurant, The Village Inn. In spite of being over fed these days, we decided to have lunch there, and were not disappointed. Their fish chowder, made with fresh caught lake trout, is outstanding.
We went home on Hwy C, which traverses the Barrens, to Washburn and thence back to Bayfield. The Barrens are always interesting, and were at the height of their beauty yesterday with great gobs of snow clinging to thousands and thousands of pine trees.
Art,
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