It rained today, the first time in my entire stay, almost three weeks.   It was a nice change, though I haven’t tired of sunshine on water yet.  I spent most of the day baking and reading and studying my still unsuccessful painting.

Later in the afternoon I realized the rain had stopped and glancing outside toward the lake I saw the sun struggle to emerge.

The sky was so dramatic that I grabbed my camera and ran down the stairs to the beach without a coat.  After all yesterday it had been 81 degrees out.  Once down on the beach with a strong wind blowing the lake into mounds of water I realized it was COLD!  Then I heard someone whoop and saw, down the beach, two people with sails enjoying the wind and waves on their surfboard/ski type thing.  Too cool!  I RAN back up the 45 stairs to get my winter coat, then ran back downstairs to watch them play in the surf.   What fun to watch them fly by!

Later in the evening I got to watch another beautiful sunset.

It’s going to be so difficult to leave this place!