ADVANCING ICE, MORE SHIPS, AND A BOBCAT

 ICE ON LOWER CHEQUAMEGON BAY NOW VISIBLE FROM BAYFIELD

BOBCAT (from Google files) 

DULUTH/SUPERIOR HARBOR IN THE EVENING

Thursday,  8:00 AM.  20 degrees F, wind WSW, calm with light to moderate gusts.  The sky is covered with a light overcast, the humidity is 91% and the barometer is trending down, currently at 30.29".  It is  a gray, rather shapeless day.
   We are hosting a Christmas party for the Tree Board tomorrow evening, so today and tomorrow will be mostly devoted to cooking, cleaning and generally getting ready for guests.  I am recovering quickly from a minor operation yesterday, the result of spending most of my life in the sun.  But I would do it all over again (with my shirt on).
   Yesterday morning the ice of the lower Chequemegon Bay was clearly visible from Bayfield as a white band on the southern horizon, between the dark waters of the upper Bay and the gray of the Penoke hills. The Duluth-Superior Harbor was  lit up with the loading and unloading of  ships yesterday evening.
   On the way home yesterday, just a few miles west of Ashland on Hwy. 2, we almost hit a bobcat that ran in front of the truck.    The animal was definitely a feline, it was tawny, with a short tail and chunky head and body.and at about thirty pounds could not have been anything else.