Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday to jrittenhouse!

Chocolat Bar

Having seen the Journal Sentinel's article about the Chocolat Bar in the InterContinental Hotel in Milwaukee, Joyce and I had some chocolate there on Saturday night. We had a great time and recommend it a lot.

Melting

The weather turned warm today, substantially above freezing. The snow is already melting away, and while Lapham Peak's ski trails remain covered for now, they are already icy and hard to ski on. The current forecast is for warmth all week and possible rain on Saturday. We will thus return from winter wonderland back to late sunrise, early sunset, cold, rain, dormant plants, and no snow to play on. The cold and dark part of winter is inevitable, but the fun part, the snow, is very fragile. A warm sunny day in summer can be a great day to cycle to the beach regardless of the weather the day before, unless the weather the day before was a storm so severe the effects are still being felt, but skiing is very much a matter of the weather over the last days and even weeks.

We're just starting to get a bit of daylight just before I have to wake up, but we'll go back to darkness in the morning soon when we change the clocks to daylight saving time.

I tend to find the changing of the seasons a bit depressing, for we lose what we had in the old season long before we really get into the new season.

Though when we do melt all the ice away, I'll start riding the bicycle to work again.