It always amazing that a small stream like this off shoot of the Amnicon River can create such a large and beautiful waterfall a few feet downstream.
Before the Falls
Picture of the Day for March 9, 2015
With temperatures finally above freezing, I was able to create “rivers” in my driveway like I used to do as a kid to drain the puddles away. The predicted warm week just might melt the snow and have rivers running again but it is too early for the trees to leaf out yet.
Downstream from Lost Creek Falls
Picture of the Day for January 17, 2015
This weekend is Wisconsin’s Winter Free Fishing so you can fish anywhere in Wisconsin without a license or trout stamp. This includes all inland waters and Wisconsin’s side of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River. And this year, the weather will actually be fairly nice with temperatures around the freezing mark.
But I never been much of an ice fishing person as sitting around a hole on a hunk of ice waiting for a fish to swim by your line doesn’t overly thrill me. Half the fun of fishing is seeing if you can throw your line in the spot you want (without getting snagged in the tree behind you or the stump in the water), but I also like see other critters swimming about or spotting wildflowers along the path to the fishing spot and where I can sit on a warm sunny bank so I think I will wait until the free summer fishing weekend in June instead.
Fishing Weekend
Picture of the Day for January 11, 2015
In some churches, such as the Anglican, Lutheran and Catholic churches, today is the celebration of the Baptism of the Lord. The pictures often show them standing in water during the baptism but it would be an extremely short service and a definitely a chilly one if it occurred in January in Wisconsin. And a baptism by immersion would definitely take your breath away, assuming you find a river with open water.
A Chilly January Stream
Picture of the Day for December 22, 2014
Old Man Winter must be confused with all the cloudy weather we have been having since now that it is officially winter, it is raining and melting the snow away. But it sounds like the snow will return soon enough, but in the mean time, I will dream of a warmer fall day on the banks of the stream in Houghton Falls State Nature Area.
A Little Falls
Picture of the Day for November 22, 2014
Sitting by a stream on a Saturday summer day sounds good right about now since I am tired of winter already and wouldn’t even mind sharing it with other people, even a rock family!
Rock Family
Picture of the Day for September 16, 2014
When visiting the waterfalls in Northern Wisconsin near Lake Superior, people are drawn to the big falls watching the water plunge over the edge and listening to the roar of the water, but upstream from the falls in the shallow streams, another pretty view can be seen which is so often overlooked for the main event. Sometimes the main event isn’t flowing during certain times of the year as this small branch of the Amnicon River only flows when river levels are high, hence the name of the falls is ‘Now and Then Falls’ which is just down stream from this spot but with the recent heavy rains, it was flowing now.
Upstream from Now and Then Falls
Picture of the Day for January 17, 2014
After listening to the wind howl and watching the snow blow yesterday, I much rather hear a babbling brook and watch water falling on a warm summer afternoon.
Babbling Brook
Picture of the Day for December 7, 2013
After several days below zero, I wonder if this small stream and waterfall is still running or if it has already succumbed to the grip of winter.
Still Flowing?
Picture of the Day for April 21, 2013
Yesterday the sun was out and some of the snow was melting. Seeing the water running, it reminded me of all the times as a kid when we would play with the water. A stick would create new streams (course they were only few inches wide) or open up a dam where the snow or ice was backing up the water. Hours were spent creating ‘rivers’ in the barnyard and if the snow was melting quickly, a discarded hunk of wood became a boat on the newly created rivers.
But today, those ‘rivers’ are covered over with snow again so I guess I have to wait for another sunny today to ‘play as a kid’ again.
Melting Snow
