Bayfield — Some winters, with severe temperatures cold enough, freeze a path on the surface Lake Superior to the ice filled sandstone caves of Mawikwe Bay. Yesterday 11,500 people gathered family and friends to make the miles long walk. A short tour might stretch 3 miles. A wayfarer on the longer journey might walk 9 miles to see all the wonders. Tall cliffs rise above a shore without a beach which prevent...
Duluth — I don’t mean to bitch, but it’s the Big Lake. She froze to the bone this winter and she’s damn slow to warm up. Living cheek by jowl with Lake Superior as I do, I constantly feel her cold feet up aga...
Duluth — True! we still have flows of ice floating off shore. True! Yesterday as I worked in the garden I experienced 46° while my friends who live further from the Lake enjoyed 86°. Tonight, however, at 2:00 ...
Duluth — Most any northeast wind reminds we dwellers of her western shore that Lake Superior has a ‘tude. We have at the far corner of the Lake , on average, 52 days of fog - gray, cold and clammy days each ye...
Yesterday Lake Superior bore some 11,500 folks on her shoulders to Mawikwe Caves.
This June? Certainly a florist's cooler!
Truly we've broken the back of Winter at the western end of Lake Superior.
Gale warning: "LAKE ICE EMBEDDED WITHIN WAVES COULD RESULT IN VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS FOR VESSELS ON WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR."
Waiting for my ships to come in.
"In about 30 years, if we humans continue with our negligence, an ounce of drinking water will cost the same as an ounce of gold."
No porta-potties this year; a sign we have renounced our foolishness and nature has healed?