Motion, music and melting

The ice is breaking up! It's moving around the lake in big chunks - one minute the canoe launch is all iced in as it is now, come back in 15 minutes and the ice has moved somewhere else, leaving a little pile of long thin crystals of ice piled on the shore. Another 20 minutes - here it is back again!

One of the neat things about this crystal ice is that as the wind blows against the edge, it makes a sound like ice rattling in a glass - this is one of the "sounds of fall" as the ice forms and an even better "sound of spring" as it disappears!

We've been working hard the past week - the water is on in all the cabins and bunkrooms, the canoes are out in the yard where they belong, cleaning is underway, tree planting is underway, - work season is UNDERWAY! :)

Mike and I drove up to the Iron Lake Campground Sunday - no ice to be seen on Iron Lake! There were, however, more moose tracks in the campground and on up the Old Gunflint Trail than I've seen in a long time - lots and lots and LOTS of moose tracks! There's even one wandering past Rockwood the last day or so!