Photo of the day: Cotton candy sky over Crab Orchard Lake

By Carson VanBuskirk, Staff Photographer|November 11, 2019

Sam and Marshall Phinney, of Carterville, and Layla West, of Cobden, drive their boat to the loading dock on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019, on Crab Orchard Lake.

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