Well - I don’t know if anyone reading this figured this out before I did, but I’m actual, somehow, a week out with the numbering on my posts. This is actually Week 53 - it has now been one full year. I don’t know how that happened - perhaps there’s one post that actually encompassed two weeks and I only labeled it as one. I will go back and see if I can figure it out and make the necessary changes...but in the meantime, I’m not in Cuba for the second year in a row. There’s snow and ice on the ground here still...but this has been a week of warming, nearly all of the snow is gone off the ground now and watching it start to melt off the lake has been beautiful...and a first time experience for me.
Small patches of water can be seen on the shoreline
Look!! Going out and coming back for the first time this year!! She didn’t go far, basically just out into the lake, did a couple of circles, and back in again. This is definitely a sign of spring!
Even if there is still lots of ice around!
You can see fewer and fewer of the ice floes on a day to day basis
The Municipality took down a beautiful old tree today and I just loved the look of some of the giant stumps!
Yeah!! Not only did the Ciscoette make a first trip yesterday, today the Mike J is back in the harbour!!
More signs of spring popping up in the grass
Seeing more and more robins...
4!!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
(You can tell from the snow that some of these photos were taken a couple of weeks ago)
Not in bloom yet but soon. Here come the daffodils.
I have walked by this lovely old stump nearly every day for months now, and it’s only today that I noticed that there is actually a new sapling growing right out of the middle of it!
It was so exciting to go down to the beach today because the waves are back!! Unless we get a really cold stretch of weather soon, the waves will help break off the shelf of ice at the shoreline and it won’t be long now until it’s gone.
Snowballs at the shoreline, made by Mother Nature
To help a bit - I’m standing on the beach, which is completely snow and ice free. All the dark brown you see, with the puddles is actually all ice. Beyond that there is another shelf of ice, not so much sand covered so it looks white. After that, where you see the waves, is where the ice ends. It will be interesting to see just how quickly it goes away.
After a very cloudy, overcast day the sun appeared late in the afternoon...
And we ended up having a gorgeous sunset!
Like they do every year, the municipality got the signs out and ready, but they didn’t need to use them this year. Roads were closed a couple of times north and south of us, but not once in Bayfield or immediate area.
Beautiful day today. The open water and waves are quickly breaking up the ice shelf at the shore but it’s still cold enough for the water to freeze.
There is still some ice left at the shore
But far fewer ‘snowballs’.
Same spot on the beach a day later. The sandy ice is significantly less and the ice shelf beyond it is completely gone. And in another spot along the beach the ice is completely gone!
It was an absolutely beautiful day today - easy to see why items like these were ‘dropped’
The snow isn’t all gone yet though
Less and less ice at the shore, but remember that all of the dark brown ‘clumps’ are actually snow and ice covered in sand, so there is still more to melt.
The people sitting on the end of the pier had the perfect spot for fishing.
The colours on the lake tonight were fascinating!
This would be a PERFECT air mattress day if it was only about 20 degrees warmer...and the big hunk of snow and ice at the shoreline wasn’t there!
It was so warm today (for spring of course) that the horizon was actually hazy! The lake was still...and those out fishing loved it!
Boom! Boom! Two caught right in a row. Both good sized rainbow trout.
Still haze on the horizon, and ripples on the water now as a wind has picked up, but another sunset to end another week.
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