Didn’t I say my friends had been planning for some weekend activities in my last entry? They did and it was fun - Friday evening ride around Lake Linden, dinner in Mings, a game of Cricket in the SDC, Saturday afternoon drive towards Presque Isle (we never made it there due to some technical/mechanical glitch but the drive was still good and photo-worthy) near Marquette, dinner at AppleBees, …. Needless to say, shot quite many pictures and all these friends were kind enough to pose for portrait shots

Friends On Preacher Lake, US41 - on our way to Presque Isle, Marquette

And now, to the MOST IMPORTANT PART: IT’s here — estimating from the amount of snow that came down during first 24 hours and extrapolating such experiences from that past few years, something (may be common sense, if you think I have any…) tells me that it’s going to be a loooong winter… Here are couple shots of first load we got last night….

Houghton Cemetery during first load of snow…

Daniell Heights during first load of snow…

What started out as a rain mixed snow and tiny snow flakes last night had grown to be a few inches (everywhere - on the street, roof, automobiles, …) by this morning. Neither I am complaining about the length of cold season nor am I threating *new comers / first timers* about what’s in store for us. Browsing through the pages of history (my diary, the one I used to write before this blog came along), I found something to convince what my common sense told me…

Winter starting around second week of October could just be a coincidence - but when it did last time, we had a pretty harsh one at that

Have a pleasant (and safe) Winter…