A jaunt to Blind River

There was a bit of a sun break this morning.

From the family we had lunch with yesterday, the girls learned that the Girls' Club portion of the Boys' and Girls' Club here, offers a Photo Club. So they spent around an hour yesterday afternoon there, and came back with one of the single-use cameras. They were taking quite a number of indoor photos.

Anyway, back to the opening sentence of this post... I sent them outdoors this morning to get some photos there. And then my plan was for all of us to drive down to the Blind River picnic area next to the fish hatchery. This is where last June, the girls spent some time swimming in the river/slough. The bridge across the river to the hatchery is where kids jump off and into the river during the summer.

By the time we started out, the clouds had rolled back in and snow was starting to fall again, if ever so lightly. It's about a 15-mile drive out. This is just a little bit more than what my commute used to be. But now it seems like a really, really long trip. Funny how perception of time and distance is oh, so relative.

Anyway, we got to the river and the picnic area. The highway beyond the picnic area is not plowed. To go any farther requires a snow machine of some sort. The scenery was quite different from what we saw last summer. That might seem like stating the obvious, but it really looked like a different world, although some of the shapes and forms were somewhat recognizable.

We spent probably a half an hour or so in the area, photographing the scenery. By the time we were getting ready to go back, the snowfall had increased in intensity and continued to do so as we drove back. While driving back, I think it was Amy that mentioned something about changing the clock. It was only then that we realized that, "Oh, today is the changeover to DST." We don't watch television, we don't really listen to the radio, no reason to try to make it to the stores at opening or before closing, and there were no appointments that we had to make today. We knew about the change yesterday, but there was nothing to remind us today that we were living one-hour behind the times...

This evening the clouds again closed in and there was a period of heavy and wet snow.

Here are a few images from today. The bottom one of the boat is from the front yard of the apartment. All the others are from the Blind River area.