Musings

The wind fought me, and made this three-second exposure a bit blurry, especially on the right. This fits the Sunday pace of life, I think.

Posted at 10:05 PM | Comments Off on A bit of a tremble

My spidee sense says a time change looms, and this lovely evening light will be sliding back…and our dark mornings will be lighter…that’s the flip side…. Impossibly, I’d like more light at both ends of the day.

Posted at 9:55 PM | Comments Off on Impossible dream

Confession: this photo is from last week in the UP, a daisy-ish fleur in a mowed path, nestled in with a dusting of fallen leaves.

I thought it was dry up there, yet it’s dry dry dry here, too—no rain yet in this month in ATL, which is…WOW!…as it’s already the 23rd. OTOH, it’s great to see a flower even if the weather is especially arid and un-supporting of plants.

Posted at 9:37 PM | Comments Off on Weather watch (again)

Glacial erratic (taller than The Guru). I think.

Architectural remnant. I think it was the entry to an otherwise destroyed building, slightly modified to have four irregular sides…somewhat like a mini-chapel.

Posted at 8:51 PM | Comments Off on Unexpected

Sorry if you think this post is about music. The light is the opera, here…. Pre-sunrise, on the way to the point.

The sun’s coming!

Ah, there’s the rise!

Looking back. Note the orange cast on the foam by the tiny, new island.

This is mid-day, looking south from the grove.

The cottage is oddly keystoned…so, keystone kottage?

We don’t cross the bridge this time of day, and so miss this every time—almost sunset.

And, from the first rest area south of the bridge.

Do you forgive me the title?

Posted at 8:18 PM | Comments Off on Light opera

Sunglow and shorefoam.

The ridge patterns that the waves make on the bottom…two zones are at right angles…never noticed that before so close together, almost intermeshed…seems so unlikely.

Yesterday, we watched a busy pileated pit this stump in two places. This is the larger, deeper excavation. Fueling up for winter, surely….

Posted at 7:48 PM | Comments Off on Wonders

What a clear night to watch the moon, a bit blown out and enhanced by my phone’s algorithms.

Posted at 10:06 PM | Comments Off on The moon! The stars!

There’s a bit of politics behind it, but the lake levels are dropping (by removing boards in the dam) to prepare for the ice season followed by the spring melt.

Just off our beach, odd bits of sandbars are surfacing, like this island(let). I was spellbound by the diamond pattern generated by the wave series coming from different directions on the far side of the emerging landform.

Perhaps riffles are technically only created by interruptions in flowing water, like creeks and rivers, but I keep thinking of this as a riffle.

Posted at 8:55 PM | Comments Off on Not Atlantis

See those menacing clouds just above the horizon? They are down at the Lake Michigan shore. We heard that the rain they produced came down hard and sideways. Here: nothing, not a drop.

Posted at 8:41 PM | Comments Off on Weather vagaries

We were out last night hoping to bask in the northern lights. Since I turn into a pumpkin pretty early, we missed the lights (they’re more likely at “bar closing time”)—the moon beamed gloriously.

Look at the stars!

The view to the north—more stars! BTW, the lights in the lower left are our cottage.

Catching the sunrise is much more my speed…meaning I’m more of a morning person.

Hard to improve on this.

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