Monthly Archives: August 2017

Stump

The park’s famous for its tall pines, one last stand saved from the loggers by the daughter of a logger to honor her late husband. When I was a kid the stand featured The Monarch, Michigan’s tallest tree. The Monarch’s died, but the remaining trees are still impressive.

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Dog

Technically this dog wasn’t being walked, but lived in the campsite across the way and was also watching the parade.

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Oreo

Sometimes I pick the daily photo because it tells a story, or because it gives me an excuse tell a story.

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Sturgeon Point Light

We visit and vacation on Lake Huron all the time. But both Cheboygan and Saint Ignace are on the Straits, and Port Huron’s actually south of the Lake–that leaves a lot of Michigan’s sunrise coast we’d never seen. So last year we decided to try somewhere between.

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Stockade

Grand Portage National Monument, in northern Minnesota, on Lake Superior near the Canadian border. Grand Portage was the frontier headquarters for the North West Company, trading goods for furs.

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Green!

Cascade River State Park, near Grand Marais, Minnesota.

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Buttressed

They tore this barn down a couple years back, and shipped the lumber off to whereever you ship old lumber. The reason they tore it down is probably self-evident.

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Keeping Score

A wealth of photographs. And I stick you with a stupid scorecard.

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Leigh Gibson

While I’ve been attending the Charlotte Bluegrass Festival for decades, last week’s Milan festival was my fifth. It had always seemed too far away–until 2013, when it looked like the Charlotte festival wouldn’t happen.

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Flaimer’s

My first visit to Virginia–and to what the locals call The Range–was with the Macalester College Concert Choir, during spring break of my senior year. I’ve been going back ever since.

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