Sight-seeing, west
Monday, 1 June 2026
Despite it being dry, the lupines are rolling into blossom-time.
I discovered this decoration after driving to Marquette via the Seney-Shingleton stretch; clearly, it has lasting power.
That distorted building in the reflection houses the Vierling, a long-time restaurant-bar on the corner of Front and Main. We’ve been going there since the first time the Guru came to the UP.
Here’s the view from the Vierling. That construction site will be a five-storey Hilton property atop a parking garage, which means it’ll block this view of the Marquette harbor. Progress.
This is the remains of the ore dock, with no attachment to the land that would facilitate human exploration. I guess the powers that be figured these ruins were safe to leave unsupervised.
On our return leg, we stopped on the dune-top on the west side of the Au Train River, where it dumps into Lake Superior. The lake-ice has shifted the river mouth so that there’s no beach on this side. That winter-ice is powerful.