The twangy music created a flashback to the old Clint Eastwood westerns, where danger lurked around every corner and the hats were mostly dark shades of gray (certainly not white). The open water against the ice in your vid provides the same feel -- how close can the skaters get without getting onto thin ice and falling through? Enticing, that ice where it's just in the process of icing, but whatever beckons must be resisted. That's what the music is saying: be careful.
"The twangy music created a flashback to the old Clint Eastwood westerns, where danger lurked around every corner..."
Ha ha. The truth is there was something wrong with the audio track and I didn't want it to be a silent movie. I needed to pick from the uncopyrighted choices in iMovie.
I wonder how many hockey pucks get lost in that open water area.
Back in the day, my dad used to pull lots of junk and trash out of the Madison lakes underwater: mostly lost boat anchors, fishing lures, and bottles. He'd melt down the lead anchors and cast them into 3 and 4 lb weights for diving belts and sell them.
One of the bottles he found in Mendota (it's actually a ceramic flask) is stamped (in the clay):
It's an old German mineral water flask. A quick Google search tells me that the springs are still producing water: link though the flask is undated. I have no clue how that bottle ended up on the bottom of Lake Mendota.
By the way, the open water isn't from warming air temps. It's the spring feeding in.
It's like natural waste water effluent. I'll bet you could stand on the edge of the ice and peer down into the water. Why don't you have Meade try that with his strap-on camera? Make sure he has his ice hooks though. :)
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Those springs are beautiful to paddleboard back into in the summer. Don't get out too much like that, in the winter, though.
The twangy music created a flashback to the old Clint Eastwood westerns, where danger lurked around every corner and the hats were mostly dark shades of gray (certainly not white). The open water against the ice in your vid provides the same feel -- how close can the skaters get without getting onto thin ice and falling through? Enticing, that ice where it's just in the process of icing, but whatever beckons must be resisted. That's what the music is saying: be careful.
"The twangy music created a flashback to the old Clint Eastwood westerns, where danger lurked around every corner..."
Ha ha. The truth is there was something wrong with the audio track and I didn't want it to be a silent movie. I needed to pick from the uncopyrighted choices in iMovie.
Lots of ice melting around here today. The January Chinook right on schedule.
A nice coexistence of ice, dogs, and open water
Be careful, Madame.
Glad to see you have better sense than those other people, but I take you've already started to see the warmer weather.
I wonder how many hockey pucks get lost in that open water area.
Back in the day, my dad used to pull lots of junk and trash out of the Madison lakes underwater: mostly lost boat anchors, fishing lures, and bottles. He'd melt down the lead anchors and cast them into 3 and 4 lb weights for diving belts and sell them.
One of the bottles he found in Mendota (it's actually a ceramic flask) is stamped (in the clay):
Selzerwasser
Leonhardquelle
Brunnen = Verwaltung
Gross=Karben.Hessen
It's an old German mineral water flask. A quick Google search tells me that the springs are still producing water: link though the flask is undated. I have no clue how that bottle ended up on the bottom of Lake Mendota.
Someone threw it.
No shit
Dog-less??
I can't believe you'll be that way for long.
this hockey player is drooling at the open ice....
How do you pronounce Wingra?
Wingra? WING gruh.
By the way, the open water isn't from warming air temps. It's the spring feeding in.
By the way, the open water isn't from warming air temps. It's the spring feeding in.
It's like natural waste water effluent. I'll bet you could stand on the edge of the ice and peer down into the water. Why don't you have Meade try that with his strap-on camera? Make sure he has his ice hooks though. :)
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