AN ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS DAY

VIEW FROM THE BEACH LOOKING NORTH...
(Port Superior /Pike's Bay Marinas left center, Bayfield far distance, right center

ICE COVERED BEACH GRASS, MOUTH OF SIOUX RIVER

Tuesday, 10:00 AM.  28 degrees F at the ferry dock, 29 on the back porch.  Wind SW, very strong.  The sky is clear, the  humidity 77% and the barometer 30.17" and falling.  Snow is predicted for Wednesday afternoon into Thursday morning.  Today is a repeat of yesterday's great weather.

   Yesterday developed into an absolutely gorgeous winter day, with temperatures in the high twenties and startlingly bright sunshine in a cloudless sky, and the beach once again beckoned.

   I find the beach a great place to walk now, before ice forms on the lake.  The long strand of sand is either frozen and easy to walk on, or wet and solid where lapped by the waves, and with rubber boots on, also easy to walk on.  I am now through with cardiac rehab and have to get sufficient exercise, particularly walking, and the beach is a great place to do so right now.  And Buddy loves it.

   The beach at the mouth of the Sioux River looks like it has a bad haircut (or one of those expensive spiked cuts) with the beach grass still covered in ice.  And as clear as the atmosphere is, one can see the little city of Bayfield, about eight miles away, quite clearly.