The trees are bare and the ground has some fallen leaves which are mostly covered with snow, but today’s scene doesn’t have spring flowers blooming among the white covering. A few frozen and withered late fall flowers is all that you might spot under the snow since the snow season has just started and spring flowers appearance is months away.
Blooming in Snow
Seasons have come and gone many times for this old shed and I wondered what prized possessions the building had sheltered over the years and if it was a favorite place for children to play in on a rainy day.
Weathered Shed
While watching the snow flakes falling this morning, I decided I preferred to see water falling over a waterfall instead. A series of five smaller falls which cascade around island, make up the Lower Tahquamenon Falls, which is four miles downstream from the upper falls. You can take row boats to the island to see different views the falls as the river splits around island (which is to the right of this set of falls).
Lower Tahquamenon Falls
The start of December means that winter is just really starting and there will be more snow and cold coming for many months yet. I don’t think this wagon will be big enough to haul winter farther north. And for the earlier generations, this mode of transportation wasn’t closed in or have a heater to kept a person warm, so I guess I can’t complain about winter but I still might anyway!
Heavy Wagon
The mother cat is very watchful. She is either watching for mice, her kid or the approaching snow.
Watchful Mother
A month ago, the trees displayed colorful autumn colors but now the scene has changed to bare trees and snow covering the ground.
Autumn Sunday
With the temperatures getting down to 8 last night, the llamas probably appreciated their warm coats. Llamas originated in the central plains of North America about 40 million years ago. They migrated to South American about 3 million years ago and by the end of the last ice age, the llamas were extinct in North America. But they have returned to their origin with the importation of llamas from South America.
Traveling Llamas
The shiny, sparkly glare from the water and ripply ridges of sand under the water surface is a better scene than the glare from ice and bumpy waves of snow covering the ground I saw today.
Bumpily Beach
A Thanksgiving Alphabet
T…Turkeys, tablespreads, being together,
H…Happiness and homes to protect us from all weather,
A…Aunts and uncles, a reunion in Fall,
N…Nieces and nephews, family members all!
K…Kind-hearted kin coming over for dinner,
S…Surely you’ll have fun, but you won’t get thinner!
G…Gourds and pumpkins, mouths open wide.
I…Indians and Pilgrims we remember with pride.
V…Very special times-there could even be snow.
I…Imagine what it was like at Plymouth long ago.
N…Never forget how the settlers led the way,
G…Giving thanks and blessing this special day.
Author Unknown
Table Waiting for Thanksgiving Meal
Legend has it that Pilgrims may have served cranberries at the first Thanksgiving in Plymouth. American recipes containing cranberries date from the early 18th century. Today some people may have been making cranberry sauce for tomorrow’s Thanksgiving meal. In September and October, you can see cranberry beds in Wisconsin turn to a red color as the cranberries float on the water during harvest.
Sea of Red
