Last night I went to the new James Bond movie with Travalon, Jilly Moose, and OK Cap at Flix Brewhouse, where they bring your food and drink right to your seat. Not to give anything away, but I was totally not expecting the ending! I did actually enjoy the movie, in part because the female characters were just as well-developed as the men. Like, maybe none of them were all that well-developed, but the women had agency and weren't just eye candy. Sad that this is such a low bar.
Today Travalon and I drove to Slinger, where he used to live, to hike on the Pike Lake section of the Ice Age Trail. It goes along Pike Lake, and he took some great photos:
Then we hiked on the Cedar Lake segment. I love the light filtering through the leaves!
This is a little swampy area.
There were beautiful autumn colors.
Here we are, on the trail!
And we saw some interesting fungi:
This segment is known for kames, which are defined as "a steep-sided mound of sand and gravel deposited by a melting ice sheet." So basically glacial hills. Here is one the path passed alongside.
I had originally thought kames were rock formations, but this is the only "rock formation" we saw.
There were vines so large that we felt like we were in the jungle!
This is another kame that looks even taller. The path goes alongside this one too, but we took a shortcut back that actually went up on the first kame we had seen.
More lovely autumn colors.
We had lunch at the Linden Inn, which Travalon remembered from when he was a kid and his mother had a friend who lived in Slinger, so they would go there. It's on the shores of Big Cedar Lake, so this was our view as we ate our very tasty pizza:
On the way home we stopped at the Marshall Mill Pond as well.
This evening I went to a Baroque music concert. They had emailed the program, and sent me a postcard, and I distinctly remember Buxtehude being the first thing on the program. When I got there, the program had no Buxtehude on it, but it did have lots of Corelli, and a countertenor singing Handel, so I can't really complain. This particular group often performs pieces by more obscure Baroque composers, and then you kind of get the idea why they are obscure, but these brand-name guys never disappoint. CROSS (Citizens for a Return Of Sanity to Sound) would just like to remind everyone how wonderful it is to hear music that is not in the dreaded equal temperament, so please patronize your local early music performances!
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