I WAS EVEN INSPIRED ENOUGH TO TAKE A FEW PHOTOS TODAY

 FEMALE CARDINAL

It only took a few Sun splashes first thing this morning to haul me out of my mid-winter doldrums.  My ambition came sputtering back and my interest in things stirred.  Strange how that happens, but with me it does.  It was a Jeep ride into and around Bayfield for Pheebs and I with a cemetery walk thrown in.  But, before we could walk we had to plow a few tracks through the snow around some of the roads so we could walk comfortably and not have to do any trudging through snow.  My legs are not as trudgable as they once were.

 HOW REFRESHING TO SEE THAT PATCH OF BEAUTIFUL BLUE SKY UP THERE OUT OVER THE LAKE

 AS THE SHORELINE ICE BUILDS UP IT SOMETIMES FORMS ICE CAVES

 BOTH BAYFIELD'S PIERS ARE AGAIN BEING COATED WITH LAYERS OF ICE

 AND THE BAYFIELD RIVER IS BEGINNING TO FREEZE OVER AGAIN AS WELL

 LAYING DOWN SOME TIRE TRACKS TO MAKE WALKING EASIER

Just think, a month from right now it will be March with the shortest month of the year behind us.  Groundhog Day,  Shrove Tuesday, and Valentine's Day will have already been logged into 2023's history book.  It will be forward we will all happily look toward the approaching days of wondrous Spring.

 BAYFIELD'S MAIN STREET THIS PAST SUNDAY MORNING

 ONE OF THE AIMS IN BAYFIELD'S MAIN STREET RECONSTRUCTION WAS TO REMOVE ALL THE OVERHEAD POWER LINES AND PUT THEM UNDERGROUND......ON THE WEEKEND THE POWER POLES AND LINES CAME DOWN AND POWER WAS SWITCHED OVER TO THE UNDERGROUND SYSTEM 

DRIVING ALONG BAYFIELD'S MAIN STREET THIS MORNING IT WAS NICE TO SEE ALL THE OVERHEAD SAGGY POWER LINES GONE......DEFINITELY A BIG IMPROVEMENT

 AND I LIKE MAIN STREET'S NEW STREETLIGHTS THAT CAST  THE LIGHT ONTO THE GROUND AND NOT UP INTO THE SKY ADDING TO LIGHT POLLUTION

With sunshine beaming through our pine trees this afternoon, I moved some snow around, topped up the bird feeders, and fired up our RV just because I could.  I was even inspired enough to take a few more bird photos.

 MALE CARDINAL

 THE EAST END OF A BLUE JAY HEADING WEST

 BLUE JAY

 DARK EYED JUNCO

 NUTHATCH

 SO NICE TO SEE DAPPLED SUNLIGHT IN OUR FRONT YARD

For a change of pace in my reading I took myself back into the air again and chose, Into The Silk: 'True Stories of the Caterpillar Club'.  It is stories of airmen who baled out of aircraft over the years and survived by using Irvin-designed parachutes.  It is a history of parachutes and how they have evolved from their humble beginnings in 1929 to present-day state-of-the-art devices continuing to save lives around the world on an almost daily basis.  The book is a page-turner of harrowing high and low-altitude escapes with some of the aircraft flying faster than the speed of sound.  I finished this book today.        

 THESE SHAFTS OF SUNSHINE PERKED ME RIGHT UP

In this video bass singer, Geoff Castellucci, doing his own harmony sings Shenandoah.

 A MALE CARDINAL SOAKING UP SOME OF TODAY'S SUNSHINE

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Twenty-Six Examples of Ants::

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