Pontoon Panorama

[jesse_the_k]

I’m giving myself comment amnesty, because it’s the only way forward.

I enjoyed several pontoon rides towards the end of summer, in my birthday-month.

The locks on the Yahara River which connects Mendota (the big lake we visited in 2020) and Monona are under repair, so the pontoon rides were much smoother.

Photographic proof: Madison's low skyline is dark against the final orange sunset glow, dividing calm gray lake and cloudless blue sky:

Comments

[tarasacon]

💜🧡❤️

[sonia]

Wow, that photo! Happy (belated) birthday! I love how much room you gave the sky, and the orange glow around the city.

[squidgiepdx]

Pretty!

[julian]

Well, that's gorgeous. Thank you!

[sheafrotherdon]

Oh, how beautiful!!

[cmcmck]

Such a great pic!

[jesse_the_k]

Indeed. Days like those balance out today: 5 inches of snow that brought down a 1 ft diameter yellow pine branch.

[jesse_the_k]

Thanks -- I've always enjoyed the wilds of Lake Mendota, and Monona is a completely different lake. The Ho-Chunk who settled here after the glaciers melted called this place 4 Lakes, and I love the land- (and lake-) scape.

[jesse_the_k]

<3

I like this town.

My very great pleasure!

[jesse_the_k]

I still miss the oceans of my youth, but midwestern lakes are also pretty damn wonderful.

Thanks!

[jesse_the_k]

I'm lucky to live in the middle of four lakes.

Thanks

[jesse_the_k]

....that means a lot coming from you.

[tarasacon]

Yowza!

(I have a friend in Anchorage who was up to 20” earlier this week. I wouldn’t mind that maybe once a year, but it would be a LOT to deal with otherwise.)

At least we've got the infrastructure

[jesse_the_k]

I live in a between-the-wars suburb with curvy streets, and the plows have been by three times before 24 hours elapse.

MyGuy is deploying the chainsaw on the pine limb as I type.

I've had the misfortune to travel through Arkansas and Missouri during heavy wet snow storms, and 95% of the people have zero clue how to cope. Four inches of snow in Santa Fe shut the city right down.

Re: At least we've got the infrastructure

[tarasacon]

I hear that.

As a kid in Portland, schools shut down at ~3” of snow. (And as an adult I can tell you that Portlandians don’t know how to drive in the stuff.) A friend moved to Montana. She wrote me that schools there only closed at 3’!

Frequency and intensity definitely change acclimation.

[forests_of_fire]

god, I miss views like that. D: