Sunday, 13 October 2013
Kind readers, here’s a second Sunday post: bluebirds and waxwings dining on the barberries (of last Thursday), accompanied by a monitoring bluejay and happy chipmunks gathering pieces that fell to the ground.
Dining? We went to Manistique for lunch. Followed by groceries….
Sunday, 13 October 2013
No filters; this is just how the Canon captured the moment.
Day in and day out, light changes are constant. (Duh.)
The sun lingered for maybe an hour this morning, and then the clouds arrived.
Against the odds, while the water transformed into coffee, I ran down to the lake and grabbed some super-light shots before the brightness faded.
Saturday, 12 October 2013
It did not occur to me that the reflection in a double-paned window could be from both panes.
Friday, 11 October 2013
In the dawn, the dim light drained the field of color, making the ground fog-mist the highlight of the vista.
Thursday, 10 October 2013
I watched the birds feasting on these barberries (Berberis spp.) like the cold is coming, but not yet here. I thought I watched a chickadee, but not according to Sibley. Didn’t take the time to page through and figure out what that little bird was.
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Today was a gorgeous day that sun-warmed the front porch to well over 70°F, which was perfect because we had guests to dinner, and THE place to eat in our tiny cottage is the porch, not the kitchen, if you wanna do it right.
However, not much to report photographically, so this is from yesterday, the upper exterior of one of Marquette’s many gorgeous sandstone buildings. Perhaps the most famous is the Marquette County Courthouse, in part because the trial in “Anatomy of a Murder,” both in the book by John D. Volker (writing as Robert Traver) and the 1959 movie were set there.
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Marquette, like many towns, has shifted the focus of its downtown from an industrial to a touristrial (??) and service orientation. In this case, they’ve left a major visual element of the old Marquette, this ore dock is partially preserved. The wooden trestle that bridged from land to dock is gone, and we watched mallards sleeping and preening on the pier-stubs.
This is a huge structure, wide enough to have two sets of rails so ships on either side could be loaded simultaneously.
Speaking of gravity fed, we very much enjoyed our upscale meal at L’Attitude, with a fine view of this dock from our seats.
Read more about Marquette on WikiPee here, or from the downtown biz org here. Read more about ore docks on WikiPeehere; there’s also a B&W photo of this ore dock when it was still in use.
Monday, 7 October 2013
You know us and trees: always something a-brewing.
This time, it fell in a harmless direction, structure-wise. This pine was planted by my mother’s great uncle, I always heard, probably soon after the place came into the family about a century ago.
Not only is there the split at the base, but there are splits all the way up both sides. Still, this part that came down (in a storm with a bunch of other downed trees around the place) was the size of a full tree all by itself.
We brushed out the top (still need to get that stuff to a brush pile and out of the field), and will tackle this section later. Thanks very much to our multi-skilled neighbor for the chainsaw work with his Husquie; we couldn’t have done it withoutcha!
Sunday, 6 October 2013
I took this out the car window a couple of hours ago when it was rainier than it now is. A light fogginess added to the mystery and suspense that I imagined permeated the air I was zooming through.
Saturday, 5 October 2013
Loving the autumn reds.
The landscaping species, like this Euonymus alatus, native to eastern Asia, seem to be the brightest right now.