Sunday, November 23, 2008

Autumn swim

On Sept. 20, 2008, I went for a comfortable autumn swim at Castle Rock Lake, near Necedah, Wis. That swim, with a young larva, came just 31 days before a low temperature of 19 degrees at the same site and about 50 days before a low of 13 degrees above zero. In Chicago, the seasonal change has also been precipitous. We went from a high of 70 on Nov. 5 to a high of 30 16 days later on Nov. 21. It snowed on Nov. 9 here and a few times since.
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6 comments:

  1. ErikaNovember 23, 2008 at 8:01 PM

    Young larva?

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  2. arafura14November 23, 2008 at 8:56 PM

    Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.....

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  3. ErikaNovember 23, 2008 at 9:21 PM

    Larva of what species, that's the question...

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  4. UptownRoosterNovember 26, 2008 at 9:36 PM

    Your larva, homo sapiens sapiens. It was sort of a purposeful redundancy...

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  5. ErikaNovember 27, 2008 at 10:08 AM

    I know, and I liked it.

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  6. UptownRoosterNovember 27, 2008 at 11:36 AM

    Gotcha. A little slow on the uptake here these days. Happy Thanksgiving to the driftless area readers!

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