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.
Friday, 11 October 2024
Today in my wander, I found curious shapes…this gnarly branch…
…and an exploded milkweed pod. I learned today that the technical name for the fluff is coma (popularly also floss or filaments).
Thursday, 10 October 2024
My pre-coffee outing was to gauge the first frost. There was just a teeny bit on the ground, but the roofs sported a goodly amount—I’d call it a light frost. See that lower right unfrosted area? That’s above where our pillows are…it shows a serious lack of insulation!
Today’s headliner was a hike to the shore of Lake Superior…partly along the North Country Trail.
The lake was placid, much calmer than the other day.
See? That rock is the east edge of the Pictured Rocks.
On a more macro level, look at these grey fungi!
And these orange hued ones.
My-o-my did we return to the cottage (an hour-plus drive) all creaky. And hungry…ah, leftovers!
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
When I was first walking on the beach this morning, this bunch took off and looped around and around, finally returning to this same spot. Feeding? Also, I don’t know what they are…white like gulls, but smaller.
In lieu of the many dawn shots I’ve been posting, here’s a just-after shot…as in just after moonrise and just after sunset. It’s a super-wide angle image, not a pano…obviously, the sun set further to the “right” relative to this framing.