Five Days - But Who's Counting???

We live just south of the city and on a nice day have the best view of downtown. The lake stretches toward the art museum, the office buildings tower over smaller structures, church steeples are in evidence. Walking along the path at the side of the Lake Michigan gives one a real appreciation of our small-but-terrific city.

Until the last five days. Here's the morning-into-afternoon-and-maybe-evening view we get now:

What lake? What city? What marina? What boats?

Our local meteorologists explain that since we had such a long, cold winter the lake water is still very cold, especially toward the center. When we get a breeze from the east the air cools crossing the water, hits the slightly warmer air at the shoreline and voila - no lake, no city. Even driving into the city, up over the bridge across the Milwaukee River, you see no buildings until you get really close. It's other-worldly. Like something swallowed Milwaukee.

If you look closely you might see the water and a few boats in this one:

Frankly I feel like we all went to sleep in Milwaukee one night…..woke up transported to somewhere near Seattle by morning.