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| FIREWOOD FROM D & M LOGGING, RED CLIFF |
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| ANOTHER BAYFIELD DAWN |
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| MY FAVORITE OAK |
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| GOLDEN OAK LEAVES |
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| RED OAK LEAVES |
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| MOUNTAIN MAPLE |
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| QUAKING ASPEN |
8:00 AM. 42 degrees, wind W, light. The sky is clear and the dawn was a soft pink glow on the horizon. The barometer is again down but so is the humidity, so it looks to be a very nice day ahead.
We had our winter supply of mixed hardwood firewood delivered yesterday morning and it is now all stacked in the shed. Two face cords usually sees us through the fireplace season, but I sometimes order another in the spring. A full cord of wood measures 4’ high by 4’ deep by 8’ long. A “face cord” is 4’ high by 18’ deep or whatever length the logs get randomly sawed into for firewood length, so it is about half a full cord or a little less. Going price this year is $75 delivered for a face cord. Our fireplace is pretty efficient but less so than a stove. Whether it actually pays to burn wood in the fireplace is debatable. Although it produces plenty of heat while burning a lot escapes up the chimney, and ambiance is probably the principal output. But it is a good emergency heat source as well.
Good friends Curt and Ruth, who now live in Northfield Minnesota but still have a condo here, called and we went to dinner at the Portside Restaurant last night. It will close for the season after the weekend. I had walleyed pike, which was excellent, as all the entre's were.
There is still a lot of color in Bayfield, although it is mostly gone elsewhere. Sugar and red maples still are colorful, and many of the oaks, including my favorite across the street, are finally showing some red along with the bronze leaves, and a lot of shrubs are still colorful, including the mountain maples in the woods on 9th St., orange leaves glowing like lanterns in the dark morning woods. Fall lasts a long time in Bayfield, sheltered by bluffs and moderated by the lake as it is. As they say in baseball, “it ain’t over ‘till its over.”
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