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	January 7th through 13th, 2013

The week started like past weeks. A bit of damp cold in the air, snow on the lake and inches of ice under that lake snow.

By the end of the week, warmer weather followed by freezing temperatures turned the snow on the lake and Knott Lane to ice. White-ish and clear on the lake, brown and stone pocked on Knott Lane, it was all dangerously slippery and made foot travel difficult.

Before the poorly timed thaw, the more artistic among us transposed areas of the North end of the lake into a Zen-like garden creating a meditative environment. It's gone now, replaced with frozen slush.

Thankfully, other ways to create a meditative environment were found after the thaw/freeze using common household limes, glasses and tonic water. And gin.

Winter, one part of a four way division of the year. Winter on the shores of Lake Lucerne can further be divided into 3 discrete sub-seasons: Winter, Deep Winter and Thaw. Winter is filled with the first snow of the year, long nights and Holidays. Despite most peoples' best efforts, kilos are added to mass and inches to waistlines during this time. Just after the Holiday season of Winter comes Deep Winter. Deep Winter, filled with the same long nights as Winter but with weather (cold, extreme cold, wind, snow and extra special extreme cold) that props up real estate in Florida and Phoenix. Thaw is marked with the tapping of maple trees, the sound of running water and ice-out on the lake. Deep Winter started this year on January 12th. On that Saturday at 5:00 AM the wind picked up, temperatures dropped and the lake gained a few inches as the atmosphere started to condense on the surface of the ice. Okay, the liquid gas part may be a bit of an exaggeration, but it's getting pretty cold up here.<br><br><br>-Nemo likes Thaw the best

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