Sunrise at Lake Mendota, 6:48, and later, around 1:30, warm sun near Lake Wingra.

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Paddleboarding on Lake Wingra.

It was sublime!

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At the Boardwalk Café...

... you can pace around all night.

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At the Ambiguity Café...

... it's all a matter of interpretation, no? Write about whatever you like.

The photo is from the boardwalks of Lake Wingra.

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Lake Wingra, today.

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At the Gray Sky Café...

... you can talk all night.

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Lake Wingra, not long ago.

This isn't how today looks now. But it was very dramatic an hour ago.

Long shadow on the Lake Wingra boardwalk.

Today. I can't even understand my shadow in that picture. I was wearing a short skirt.

Lake Wingra — at noon today.

A gentle light, a warm enough day, but it looks bleak in the photograph.

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The dog can't log-roll...

... but he's there, in Lake Wingra today amongst the rolling logs.

Today at Lake Wingra...

... we saw some sandhill cranes:



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Waiting for the ice...

... on Lake Mendota....




... but it's cooked up and [as far as some youths are concerned] ready to go on Lake Wingra....

One more day on Lake Wingra...

... possibly "the prettiest urban lake anywhere."

Lake Wingra, today.

At Sister Stevie's fishing spot...

... you can get contemplative.

Water lilies.

Yesterday in the misty afternoon on on Lake Wingra.

At the Dog-and-Skateboard Café...

... you can roll anyway you want.

Grill'n for Peace.

We went out this morning for a round of ice skating on the Wingra lagoon, and as we drove up we saw people out on Lake Wingra in some kind of circular formation from which plumes of smoke arose. Some kind of ice barbeque? A winter tailgate party? I called it "ice-gating" — pronounced almost exactly like "ice skating." After our ice skating, we drove by and I took a few pictures.



We saw the signs: "Grill 4 ☮." Here's the website for the event. "The fun: create a giant peace sign using 'old school' Weber grills on frozen Lake Wingra. While in this awesome formation, we will grill meats, enjoy friends and have fun in the great outdoors."

"Oh, good, brave, strong dog!"

Meade and Zeus on frozen Lake Wingra, yesterday evening.

Dogs and skating on the Wingra Lagoon.

Meade texts me a video from the skating rink on the lagoon that is an offshoot of the lake where we paddleboard in the summer. You can see it's a cool skating rink. Last week, a pond hockey tournament had taken it over, and we couldn't skate. But they resurfaced it super-slick, and we got in a nice round of skating there earlier in the day. Then Meade went back out, accompanied by the dog instead of me, and kept in touch with texts, like that video... and this click-to-enlarge panorama: