Sunshine after the storm

On Monday, and Tuesday, and Wednesday it snowed and snowed.  The first two days was the actual storm and dumped about a foot of snow; the last day was lake effect snow, the result of very cold air blowing our direction across a still unfrozen Lake Superior with the resulting frost landing here--and points east--as snow.  You may have already heard about Gile, Wisconsin, and their 50+ inches of snow over the last few days.  They are over in the REAL snowbelt!

Then comes storm recovery time.  Yesterday I made the first trip out of our driveway since Sunday after the plow came one more time and Leann made a couple runs with our new--bigger--snowblower.  I took the usual trip down to The Lake and saw this:

 Yes, that's ice already with one open spot in the middle.  These are just the backwaters of The Lake, but this increases the possibility of more ice caves this year!  Maybe we can be ready for it this year.

Here's the same view late this afternoon.  Notice one of the fishing boats is gone.  They can do a back-and-forth maneuver to break through the ice and get out onto The Lake.  And, yes, that's the sun!

We also made a trip to Ashland today for an eye appointment and noticed these icy bushes along the edge of Chequamegon Bay.  It looks like the waves were washing up pretty high on those stormy days.

Under the right conditions, the combination of wind, cold and water can make some beautiful things!

And tonight we had or first deer come to our feeder for some dried corn cobs and apples.  And...we have LOTS of apples!