LIKE AN ARCTIC SCENE

A GORGEOUS, FRIGID MORNING

THE ICE ROAD IS NOW SMOOTH AND HARD,,,

BUT NOT STRONG ENOUGH FOR THIS TRUCK, WHICH WILL TRANSFER ITS LOAD TO SMALLER TRUCKS

THE BEACH IS WINDSWEPT, AND BARE OF SNOW IN PLACES

LIKE AN ARCTIC SCENE

Thursday, 7:45 AM.  -3 degrees F, wind NNW, mostly calm with light to moderate gusts.  The sky is clear and azure blue, with a band of gray clouds fringed in silver draped across the eastern horizon. There was a pillar of rainbow earlier that could not be captured by my camera, and was shortly obscured by fog rising from the channel. The humidity is 78% and the barometer is more-or-less steady, at 30.44".  It is a gorgeous, still-frigid morning.
   The ice road is hard, smooth and safe for most vehicular traffic, but tanker trucks carrying propane are too heavy and must transfer their loads to smaller trucks that make the crossing to the Island.
   Buddy badly needed to stretch his legs yesterday afternoon so I put his jacket on him and we went to the beach, much of which is windswept and bare after days of brutal wind.  Chequamegon Bay is like an Arctic scene.