So eleven days after our last significant snowfall in my part of the world my dog and I went camping at the state park I'd mentioned a few posts back (a.k.a. the pic I posted of the shocked Smokey looking out at a snow covered forest), and the weather was extremely buggy with a chance of EEE. How buggy was it? I've got a candle which runs a little hot, and here it is the next morning covered in black flies which spot-welded to it the night before:
When we got to the camp my dog and I took a nice hike through the woods, and when we came back I put her into my Jeep to keep her away from the bugs - she didn't come out the rest of the trip: