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I was in Wisconsin for my cousin's wedding last weekend in an area known as The Kettle Moraine. I was about 30 miles west of Milwaukee which is on the shores of Lake Michigan about 65 miles north of Chicago. We stayed in a quaint town and this view was from one of the windows in our corner suite. This looks westward through the hills. Color was not yet peak as you can see in the country side. Also Saturday was a very grey day with drizzle and storms. Here is some info from Wikipedia which explains about this unusual area. "A moraine is an accumulation of earth and stones carried and finally deposited by a glacier. Kettle Moraine is the largest moraine in the state of Wisconsin. It stretches from Walworth County in the south to Kewaunee County in the north. It has also been referred to as the Kettle Range. The moraine was created when the Green Bay Lobe of a glacier, on the west, collided with the Lake Michigan Lobe of a glacier, on the east, depositing sediment. The western glacier formed Green Bay, Lake Winnebago and the Horicon Marsh. The moraine is dotted with kettles caused by buried glacial ice that calved off the end of a receding glacier and got entirely or partly buried in glacial sediment and subsequently melted. This process left depressions ranging from small ponds to large lakes and enclosed valleys. The topography of this area is widely varied between the lakes and kettles and the hills of glacial deposits, which can rise up to 300 ft from the lakes. Elkhart Lake, Geneva Lake, and Little Cedar Lake are among the larger kettles now filled by lakes." This area is also referred to as Lake Country as there are many, many lakes of all shapes and sizes.