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]

💜🧡❤️

[jesse_the_k]

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

[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.