winter blues

OK to help combat some of the chill in the air, here's a picture from my trip to Cincinnati last year. hopefully it will encourage warm thoughts.

sublimation

sublimation - to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form. i believe that's the correct spelling for what was happening to Lake Michigan on Monday. According to Tom Skilling, WGN's weatherman, the mist over the lake was really water crystals. it's related to evaporation but because of the extreme cold the evaporation was freezing. Very Cool.

-7

This is not referring to the predicted point spread for the underdog Bears in the superbowl. On a side note they did lose by 12 points. No this was the temperature when I woke up this morning. -7 Degrees Fahrenheit, not Celsius. it's like -21 Celsius. yuck! The wind is what makes it brutal. However there is one aspect of this weather that i like... lake Michigan. I love it when Lake Michigan freezes. This morning it was amazing. Where the lake was open it was steaming. Like a heavy mist just hanging over the lake. Add in the sun rising over it and making the ice shine. Amazing! I wish i had a camera.