The very wet December seems to have sped up the decay of dead trees and the tree fungi is covering many of the stumps.
Fungi Folly
Picture of the Day for December 17, 2015
With the daylight decreasing each day in addition to the very cloudy weather, I have needed to have the lights on more often in the house to work. I’m glad that the candlepower from the light bulbs are stronger than the old oil lamp.
Old Oil Lamp
Picture of the Day for December 16, 2015
The weather was rather mixed up today, with thunder and lightning during heavy rain and sleet, then a brief thirty seconds of sun before it turned dark again with more snow and rain. A flowing river in the autumn would be a more favorable sight than what was flowing today.
Cascades Before Bond Falls
Picture of the Day for December 15, 2015
With the temperature below freezing and a chance of more snow, critters big and small will appreciate a warm barn to snuggle in.
Warm Shelter
Picture of the Day for December 14, 2015
This morning looked more like spring than winter with the water flowing all over the lawn and a major overflow from my pond due to all the rain. Eventually it switched over to snow and looked more like winter again but I’m glad we didn’t get several feet of snow.
Branch of the Amnicon River
Picture of the Day for December 13, 2015
In the summer time, a stroll to the pond is a nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon. The lack of snow makes it easy to get to the pond but the water is a little stiff so no frog floating on the surface soaking up the sun and too cold for the dragonflies to dart around.
Stiff Water
Picture of the Day for December 12, 2015
On a normal winter, the ground here would be covered with snow but this year the recent warm week has finally melted the snow but the only ‘flowers’ I found on my hike through the woods was some dried up flowers or some foliage only. The goldenrod I found wasn’t the bright golden yellow of summer time but the fuzzy white of the dried flower.
Now White and Not Golden
Picture of the Day for December 11, 2015
During the 1870s and 1880s, this hotel was located in the bustling industrial iron-smelting community of Fayette in Upper Michigan where five hundred residents lived and worked. I’m sure a wide range of people passed through these hotel doors since workers immigrated from Canada, British Isles and northern Europe.
Charming Old Hotel
Picture of the Day for December 10, 2015
You often hear the phase “the good old days” and you might think of a simpler time in the past. Depending on how old you are, that time might be before running water and electricity or the “Leave It to Beaver” era where the kids played outside (without cell phones). And while some things may have been better in the olden days, I do prefer to have a hot shower after sanding frames than to wash up with a pitcher and basin as it was hard enough to get all the sawdust washed off.
Old Wash Stand
Picture of the Day for December 9, 2015
With the numerous muddy paw prints from the cats who want holding covering the front of my jacket and coated with sawdust all over it, my coat could use a washing. And if I threw it in one of the “Caves of All Colors”, it just swirl around like a big washing machine – at least on a calm day. There probably wouldn’t be anything left of my old jacket if it was in there on a stormy days as the waves pounded into the wall. Caves of All Colors are part of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, a U.S. National Lakeshore on the shore of Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, which extends for 42 miles along the shore.
Caves of All Colors
