Eskimo Summer

I guess if warm weather in October and November is Indian summer this can safely be called Eskimo summer. Amazing that the last few trips out I've found plants blooming. On the 24th and 26th of December! Today I had one of the best bluegill trips I've had in a long time, I must have caught 50 big gills in about eight or nine feet of water at a small lake in a local wildlife area. The channel hammered a grub in an eddy just as the river began rising. The only thing that worries me is the huge swollen buds on so many trees. They look pretty vulnerable to a hard freeze. I bet the flowering trees aren't going to put on much of a show this spring.