MILL POND

It's W-I-D-E- Wednesday and the Challenge is "something local."  We're experiencing a January Thaw in February with the local temperature about 45°F. (7.2°C.) on a strong SW wind.  Back to cold tomorrow.
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There's not much to shoot in my little village except for the John Deere Implement Dealer and Fudgieknuckles Bar...neither of which is very wide.
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But if you go to the east end of town, about 2 blocks from the middle, you will find the local Mill Pond which is a dammed portion of the Mullet River constructed to provide a power source for the local sawmill. It no longer functions as a saw mill but exists as a unique home.
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The millpond remains because the dam is in decent shape and the fishing is pretty good.......and it's beautiful, especially in the fall with all the trees behind it in full autumn color.
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We're looking south and we're standing on the flat plain where the last glacial wave ended its movement southward as the earth warmed. It pushed up those giant gravel piles and, for many miles south, they exist forming a series of moraines (gravel piles) with kettles in them. 
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The kettles are typically kettle shaped (hence the name) and came to be when buried ice chunks in the moraine began to melt and flow away so the gravel on top just caved in leaving a kettle shaped depression in the moraine.  Thus was born the Kettle Moraine State Forest which occupies 2/3rds of the State of Wisconsin.
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Those hills get up to several hundred feet high and will pull the sweat right out of you if you get the chance to climb. My dog Vinnie and I spent a lot of time out there when he was alive and he has personally peed on every tree from here to Long Lake some 20 miles south.  This is where my and Vinnie's  ashes will be scattered when the time comes. My soul is in these hills.
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It's wide and it's local.  Best to see it in Large.