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 […]
Yearly Archives: 2025
Visiting Paul and Jill
Tue, 15 Jul 2025, 06:36 AM (-06:00)
You can do this when you visit Paul and Jill at their cabin on the lake. Thanks, you guys!
The Big Lake
Tue, 15 Jul 2025, 06:12 AM (-06:00)
By the shores of Gitchi Gumi. By the shining Big-Sea-Water.
Flora and Fauna
Mon, 14 Jul 2025, 02:56 PM (-06:00)
Along the Union Mine Interpretive Trail in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, there was a wonderful creek that tumbled across mossy rocks and gathered in still pools. There was flora. And there was …um… fauna?
Rocks
Mon, 14 Jul 2025, 01:40 PM (-06:00)
The fair and industrious Trudy has a special place in her heart for rocks.
Silent Sunday
Sun, 13 Jul 2025, 01:24 PM (-06:00)
I know I’ve posted a lot today. Not such a silent Sunday, it seems. But let’s pretend, shall we? #silentsunday
Arriving in the Porkies
Sun, 13 Jul 2025, 11:19 AM (-06:00)
We turned north, leaving Lake Gogebic behind us. Two years ago, David camped there, leaving Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State park for another trip. This was that trip. The temperatures got cooler and cooler. There were fewer and fewer cars on the road, which amazingly enough got smoother and smoother. The sun sank lower and lower […]
Two of a Kind
Sun, 13 Jul 2025, 10:36 AM (-06:00)
When we pulled up to the entrance of Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park at the western edge of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (where the sun lies to you about bedtime), the rangers said that they thought we had already arrived since there was someone in our campsite. One of them went dashing off in a pickup […]
The Blue Kayaks
Sun, 13 Jul 2025, 08:11 AM (-06:00)
1. It was a gray cloudy day. Dark skies hung over the forest on the western shore of the lake. There were two people in white shirts standing alone on the beach of the camp over there. They were taller than campers — must have been counselors. They stood on the sand without moving, then […]