jumpingfish

So our summer vacation was at an end. We had been on the road a month, had slept three nights in a real bed, roasted in the sun, shivered in the cold, survived gray and wind and rain, managed to avoid biting fly season in the Upper Peninsula, slapped many mosquitos and tweezed a few […]

Huckleberries have grown on this hill for a long time. Warmed by the sun. Tended and picked and eaten by generations. They await the arrival of the next.

There was one night when we were in The Porkies when it rained quite a lot. Not a deluge, mind you, but enough for us to be thankful that we were in a trailer instead of a tent.  The next morning, the storm was gone and there was a gentle breeze. I saw a couple […]

There’s a Nuthatch skipping up the trunk of a tree. A Kingfisher is chattering as it skims across the water. A family of ducks is paddling out from the swamp. And an Osprey was gliding into the branches of a tall White Pine on the eastern and then the western shore of the lake. The […]

You can do this when you visit Paul and Jill at their cabin on the lake. Thanks, you guys!