Musings

I slept in (so no sunrise shot), and I needed it (I like to think), soooo-kay.

Bonus, when I went out for the through-the-trees shot, I spotted this.

Later, I visited the beach, and spotted: leaf that had swimming lessons.

And, similar leaf (scale distorted): no swimming lessons.

I went out for a late-day sun-on-the-trees shot, and the sun went away at the same time I spotted *three deer under the apple tree* (really: there are two you probably can’t spot), which Taylor Swift might want to turn into a song lyric. 🤣

I took a photo of the trees even though the sun was gone. Ya get what ya get, is that the theme of today?

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Sun’s coming.

[Opposite direction….] Moon’s up.

[After two cups of coffee….] Sun’s up.

[In the afternoon….] We drove north through the woods, with abundant dappled light.

We arrived at Gitchee Gumee.

Note the dark spot past the end of the path. That’s the shipwreck discussed in the new sign (which was taped off last week).

Welcoming us to the cottage: a flotilla of Canada geese (uncounted) and a modest herd of deer (thirteen).

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On my early walk, I saw our nearest neighbors working on exiting. Sigh.

At the beach, the sun glowed warmly, nurturing life.

Here’s the afternoon sky, and you can see the leaves are slowly turning on the face of the woods. [It’s much quieter, it seems, with the neighbors gone.]

Meanwhile, the Uncle Dave maple is turning faster.

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The overnight rain lasted into the morning, but I was antsy to get out, and headed…

…down to the beach where I found windrows of chara and phragmites (water plants) thrown up by the wave action.

Here’s looking into the woods near the last spot.

All that weather also launched the autumnal needle drop.

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When I visited the beach this morning, it was after, I’m guessing, at least a day of windiness…that is, most of yesterday and overnight…hence the floral detritus the waves are depositing on the sand.

When I went around the point, I could see that the last of the neighbor-docks is now in for the winter….

This evening, I went out for a moon-shot…in the sense of this is the moon, although it looks like funky daylight.

The windiness continues, and is expected all night and into the morning, and I think for another day or more.

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I went down for the (just after) sunrise, and, whoohoo, it’s a new world—the dock is stashed for the winter…which is unarguable evidence that we are well into autumn.

Yup. Further evidence on the barberries (foreground), and maples (background, right). Time for different angles…

Okay. Here’s a something-new photo angle (for me).

This, it may be argued, however, is the same old view-from-the-west-with-the-sun of the Uncle Dave Maple.. Dunno. I’d argue it’s new every year. Even though it’s the same tree and viewpoint.

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With the sun already up, I chose the long view, from way down the beach, past the dock.

I spotted this white thing in the wrack line, and on first view thought: is that a funny earbud?

Nope. Some type of white root with nodules. With a large rusty nail.

Meanwhile, the maples are changing slowly and unevenly. As usual.

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Today, I observed the almost-sunrise from the cottage—through the trees. I thought the cloud-sky art exceptional.

Later, I walked to the beach, and en route collected a fallen leaf for a toe-cap.

Still, it was early enough that my shadow was long and the shore well-lit from a low angle, here looking back from the point.

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I caught the gorgeous sky-colors that preceded the actual sunrise…just stunning, with a lovely audio touch from the wavelet susurrations.

Later, I wandered the woods and found these exceptional specimens of shelf fungus (which, as a child, I heard as shell fungus, thinking I suspect of the shells like on the gas signs, which roughly match the shape, but I’ve mentioned this before—lemme run-on a tad…).

I find this very-large-rock-for-the-location, which is in The Grove on the highest part of the property, a splendid anomaly. My eye is always drawn to that thin stripe of grass below the lowest branches, a situation created by deer browsing, I assume through the winter hungries.

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I did manage to capture a few shots (okay, ten) of the sun freshly risen, and nicely orange-y.

We took a quick afternoon trip to the Real Big Lake, the one to the north. Here’s the breakwatered entry to Grand Marais’s harbor.

We then made our standard pilgrimage to the mouth of Hurricane Creek. This is the nearby beach with some shoreline breakers and boulders tumbled by glaciers some _decades_ ago. 🤣

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