October 15, 2010

This evening on the lake...

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Posted by Ann Althouse at 8:30 PM
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7 comments:

traditionalguy said...

What a beautiful scene. Thanks.

10/15/10, 8:33 PM
dpwich said...

Devil's Lake?

10/15/10, 9:03 PM
Unknown said...

Lovely images, Madame. You bloom in Nature.

10/15/10, 9:14 PM
Irene said...

(edutcher, there's a message for you on the Reid/Scalia thread!)

10/15/10, 9:18 PM
pm317 said...

wow, that first picture is well composed and exotic.

You know, Ann.. you inspired me to pick up my crummy camera and start clicking away. I love the activity of looking for beauty, the exotic, the unusual wherever I go now and I even started a blog on tumblr putting my select pictures. They are not as polished as yours are but I love the activity of composing and capturing.

10/15/10, 9:30 PM
chickelit said...

The surface of the present lake lies 500 feet below the East Bluff, but the waters of the preglacial Wisconsin River flowed along at a level at least 250 feet lower. The gorge was then 800 or 900 feet deep. The scene must have been even more picturesque than that in the present gorge below Niagra Falls. The river had less volume than the Niagra, but the gorge was deeper and more beautiful. At the time there was no lake. There was no hill at the railway cut east of the station. There was no hill where the wooded ridge now extends across the valley north of Devils Lake. There was no level land where the various groups of cottages now stand. The tumbled blocks in the talus slopes looked as they do now. The bluffs were much as today, except they overlooked a deeper valley and, therefore, appeared much higher

~Lawrence Martin "The Physical Geography of Wisconsin"

10/15/10, 10:00 PM
Vagabond Sean said...

That is beautiful.

10/15/10, 10:20 PM

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