Ed. note: Wasn’t it a gorgeous day today in Green Lake?
Check out this fantastic shot from our favorite local photographer, Jeff Blucher.  He also snapped the picture that we used in our last post, Join Arthur Lee Jacobson on a Green Lake Trees tour.
Thanks, Jeff!

Look out, Old Man Winter, Spring is sneaking up on you. (Where are you anyway? Cabo?)  All over Green Lake, signs of spring are bustin’ out with brio.  Precocious young cherry trees are sending out exploratory blossoms. Hairy magnolia buds are swelling. Intrepid stout daylily shoots are making an appearance. And, most exciting of all, [...]

Wow.  Check out this doozy that I came across in the Green Lake Archives.  Quite crotchety, that “Green Lake Kicker.”
What do you think?  Is Kicker’s concluding paragraph actually suggesting poisoning the owners of “tramp dogs”?  Or am I just giving him too much creep cred?
The Interlaken, February 13, 1903, p.3
A SUBURBAN QUESTION
When Does a Dog [...]

[Ed. note: A big thank you to My Green Lake contributor Jeff Blucher for this fabulous shot, snapped yesterday at the lake during that big downpour.]

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Editor’s note: Remember all of the fog and mist on Saturday morning?
The talented Jeff Blucher once again brought his camera to the shores of Green Lake this past weekend and captured these shots:

Much gratitude to Rosemary Washington for sharing more of her outstanding photography:

As of noon, the rain has let up, but the skies are still white.  No thunderstorms or tornadoes yet!
Jonathan from Green Roots Photography was kind enough to send us a couple of pre-rain pics of the lake:
Thanks Jonathan!

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
959 AM PDT SAT OCT 17 2009
[ ... ]
…STRONG THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON..
A RATHER STRONG EARLY FALL COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP NORTHEAST ACROSS
WESTERN WASHINGTON LATE THIS MORNING AND EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE
FRONT WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY A LINE OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND POSSIBLY
A FEW THUNDERSTORMS.
BEHIND THE FRONT…THE AIR MASS [...]

Our dear reader Horseknuckle snapped these (absolutely insane) shots yesterday evening:

At about 4:15 this afternoon in Green Lake, a flash of lightening was followed by a (very!) loud thunder clap.  As of 4:30, the rain is pouring down.
Thanks to Mitch for this great shot, which he snapped about 15 minutes before the storm began: