Friday, 17 August 2018
Out and about, I stood under a large pine (mentioned before here) and I was in a rain of cone-parts. Here’s a spent cone amidst conifer detritus.
This afternoon, after two brief rain-events (with sunshine between), I spotted this rodent eyeing the street (unfazed by my activities). Is this a belly-cooling pose?
Monday, 30 July 2018
The ripening pine cones must just have hit the tasty point for the squirrels, as underneath this pine tree was a litter of pine cone detritus and naked, gnawed cone cores.
Thursday, 19 July 2018
I’ve been keeping my crud-afflicted self inside…and consequently am musing about beautiful days like this one when we visited Fayette. This Lake Michigan (more precisely: Big Bay de Noc off Green Bay) beach is mostly limestone, but not entirely.
Saturday, 14 July 2018
I just liked this, and now you can check out your reactions. Grandview Heights architectural detail. Coffee below (out of frame).
As we pulled in the rest area on the other side of the fence, the Guru noted: this is where I took pictures of the neighboring cornfield so I think of this as the corn rest area.
No longer. Now soybeans.
Can’t really call it the monocrop rest area, as almost all are….
Farther south, we found layers of mountains, a bit blue-tinged. Temps heading for mid-90s. Pant pant.
Closer to home, the sky became dramatic, we had some rain, some wet roads. Wet continued to our driveway, with temps on our arrival in the low 80s (!!). That shower and the temp drop made arriving in the otherwise summer-hot, deep south much easier.
Friday, 13 July 2018
Toyota model skipper trapper killer. Sorry guys/ladies.
Bridge crossing was murky with the Great Lakes version of the marine layer.
By several miles south of the bridge, we were in the heat that blankets the southern/lower peninsula. Barn of northern LP.
Barn of southern LP; more active agriculture here.
We did the mosque turn differently than the highway version. Pretty light this time of day.
We stayed in the mid-summer Golden Hour in the next state south. This is a northern Ohio barn. Plenty of agricultural evidence here.
We’re holed up in AC and boring architecture. Works for us tonight!
Monday, 9 July 2018
Indeed, the focus of today’s expedition was seeing Lake Superior. That’s me in bug- and sun-resistant clothing. No fashion plate am I. Turns out, today, almost, close-to NO bugs in this area.
There at the mouth of Hurricane Creek we spotted two lampreys. I never remember seeing them in the wilds before. Scarred fish, yes; the critters, no. That brown “ribbon” across the middle of the frame: lamprey.
Instead of our usual return-to-Grand-Marais to lunch, we continued west and dined in a deli-coffee-bookstore in Munising. Yum. Such a lovely place.
On a lark, we also did the Marshland Tour at the Refuge, and of course saw many Canada geese and swans. Most of the swans were far from the car, but this wee-family was close by. I will not mention the clouds of deer flies that rode on our rear-view mirrors; such a contrast to the near bug-free conditions on the south shore of Gitchee-Gumee.
Friday, 6 July 2018
Several things about these numerals aging in place on this wooden phone/power pole are interesting. What compelled me to photograph it was that the body of the pole is clearly significantly eroded, leaving the metal pedestalled on the original surface.
Monday, 2 July 2018
Got the macro out. Of course, a flower. And of course the flower had an insect. Package deal!
My second time at the Droney flight controls, this time longer than a minute. And here’s my first Droney photo.
Beware: the future may bring more Drone-photos!
Thursday, 28 June 2018
We headed out early, down the Garden Peninsula to the ghost town of Fayette. Here’s the business part of town, where workers made charcoal pig iron for 24 years. The market began to decline and the hardwoods they made the charcoal from were no longer nearby…and, pfft, an industrial town went out of business.
I always take harbor-pilings photos. The water seemed higher than the last few years.
We made our return via Kitch-iti-kipi, the Big Spring. Love the raft ride, powered by park visitors’ arms.
More trout(?) that I ever remember seeing swam in the depths as we made our slow crossing and return.
Hot day; good day to avoid outdoor chores by going sight-seeing!
Saturday, 23 June 2018
Train and…reflections.
Fern and…forest-floor floral friend.
Waterfall and…reflection.
Stars and…you know.
Lovely day to take a long, slow train trip, a slightly hustling walk (The Foot, of course) during…intermission(?), and the same long, slow train trip back. Not a loop; instead, an up-and-back.
In a foreign country!
Great fun!