Shall we go for a drive?

For as long as we have been coming to Port Wing on a regular basis on weekends and now living here, a big part of our daily routine is to make a quick drive down to the lake.  Lake Superior, that is.  Go to the store? Take a quick drive to the lake.  Post office? Then lake.  At least once a day, sometimes more.  Why?  Because there might be something new to see, new wildlife, different boats, wild waves, or usually, beautiful sunsets. 

I used to think we were the only obsessed people about doing the daily drive to the lake.  I thought the Port Wing locals were be so used to "the lake" being here that they didn't even notice it anymore.  But not so!  We see many of the same people out on their drives when we are out on ours.  There's just something about that lake!

But now, alas, there is so much snow, we can still do the drive but we can't see the lake!  That's a weather monitor pole sticking up on the left and the very top of the light beacon out on the pier near the middle, and our car.  But no lake!  Crawling up on the snowbanks to see over them only produces more snow and ice. 

 

 

Piles of snow near Port Wing pier

So we continued the ride today and saw some of the sites below.  The Flagg River is totally iced over now and roads that are normally two lanes wide are now one lane for drifted snow and one lane for cars.

Flagg River

East White Birch Road

Morrison Road - Our neighbor's house is behind that snowbank on the right.

And despite it all, I still don't hate it!  The snow, that is.  I'm a little tired of the cold, but that can't last forever.  Or can it?