Gie Me a Canny Hour at E'en...

Title's a Burns reference, from one of my favorite verses.

After ASLing this movie...


... went for a short walk along the lake path just after the sun set below the horizon. It was up in the thirties for the first time in forever. Still a bit of winter, and more snow and more cold to go, but on days like this, you can start to remember Spring again.

Plenty of people ice fishing:






"And oh how they danced, the little people of Stone'enge."

There are a few ice and snow sculptures on the lake. Closer to the Terrace, there's a lake monster biting the shore.

I think this is the ridge from the ice quake a month or so back. Looks like a ridge, runs a good distance along the shoreline:


Heard a bird singing the other morning. Seeing this felt like that:




Getting all Casper David Friedrich on these next two:




I seem to have been taking a lot of shots of bare, ruined trees against the clear Wisconsin sky. Must be a motif, an expression of something:


On the way back. Ice fishers packing up and heading in:




Snow like waves on the shore:


Looking back, a little bit of light left in the sky:


The lights by the boathouse again:




Framed like this, it kind of feels like Godzilla's due just over the skyline:


Last rays of the sun on February 24, 2008, here in the upper midwest:


Okay, that's it. (Fort Pitt.) Need to get over to Monona at sunrise one of these days.

Post script: The ASL for The Crazies (pictured at the very top of the post) came in at a surprisingly long 2.8 seconds, with a standard deviation of 3 seconds. Which of the two activities documented above was a better use of time is open to debate.