If I do the math, we got about three feet of direct precipitation that fell into the lake this year, that is fantastic, but the last two years, we also lost 2.8 feet in the summer, and we expect to lose that three feet in the desiccating summer. So now, we’re pretty much even, and that’s not a good place to be.

Bonnie Baxter

Bonnie Jean Baxter (born 1946) is an American artist (born in Texarkana, Texas). She studied art in Illinois (1965-1967) and Michigan (1967-1969) and came to Montreal, Canada, with her artist husband, Pierre Lemieux, in 1970. She has lived in Canada since 1972. Baxter is known for her artworks that combine animal and human forms.In 2017 she was awarded the prix Charles-Biddle. In 2019 she was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides. Baxter's work is included in the collection of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.

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