Training Log Archive: CleverSky

I bought a bird feeder a month or so ago, setit up outside my office window, and it's been pretty much ignored by the birds until the past few days. I also resuscitated Nancy's old Sony camera, which was pretty good in its day. So far, I know I've had tufted titmice visiting.

Hickory Hills Lake, In The Dim, on my hopeless skis. I drove around to the other side where I could park (illegally) and not have to carry my gear a long way, and about halfway there I realized that my headlamp was still sitting in the front hall where I had sat down to put on my boots. Oh well, it wasn't dark yet. It was snowing pretty hard (and had been snowing for a few hours), and that smoothed out the snowmobiled lake surface some, and it was skatable. Not fast, but skatable. I skated for a while, then switched to diagonal, and I'm surprised that the latter was almost as fast as the former. It did get hard to see after a while, not so much because it was getting darker as because there was a lot of wet snow building up on my glasses. The conditions were also getting slower as the snow got deeper.