Monday, 21 October 2024
We saw (not heard) so many diverse views today. I have managed to pick two images; they are not representative. Look at this soupy fog in the valleys when we began our drive in the Appalachians.
I didn’t expect anything like this display at the state-line welcome center where we entered Tennessee. The message (perhaps): watch out for ghosts, dolls, and pumpkins!
Sunday, 20 October 2024
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.
Saturday, 19 October 2024
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?
Friday, 18 October 2024
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….
Thursday, 17 October 2024
Nice sunset glow today.
Changing topics: my wrist device no longer counts flights of stairs with any degree of accuracy. It used to be a bit off; now it gives me two or three each day, sometimes four. A more accurate number would be two to three TIMES that many. …Not that it’s a metric I, eh-hem, set my watch by. 🤣
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
What a clear night to watch the moon, a bit blown out and enhanced by my phone’s algorithms.
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Today’s weather qualified as partly sunny, as in almost no sun at all; however, I did catch the woods lit beautifully this afternoon. The color is coming.
Meanwhile, the lower leaves on the UncleDaveMaple are seemingly in neon hues.
Monday, 14 October 2024
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.
Sunday, 13 October 2024
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.
Saturday, 12 October 2024
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.