Winter Washes Back Over Madison

After a couple of days of below-freezing temperatures and high winds, Madison's south lakeshore is truly surreal this morning!

These were taken with a Nokia N80 cell phone; I'm still not used to squinting at an LCD instead of looking through a lens.

The curb in the third photo is on boat-launch ramp, down which we once rode in a WWII Army Duck. To get the grass closeups, I had to walk down it, which didn't look like a problem, just wet concrete. But it was glass-smooth, wet ice over concrete, at a hefty angle. I suddenly realized that if I started to slide, I'd be in the lake, in those waves, with no way out but back up the same slippery slope. Eep!