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 June 9, 2015
With the warmer temperatures today, the little donkey might not want such a furry face.
Furry Donkey
Picture of the Day for June 8, 2015
Normally you see flowers from the outside and not down inside a blossom like a bee would see as they gather nectar.
Inside the Iris Blossom
Picture of the Day for June 7, 2015
After viewing Wisconsin’s Natural Bridge and traveling down the road a bit, you can see a different stone structure. The limestone Our Lady of Loretto church closed in 1960 but the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now used as a museum.
Our Lady of Loretto Museum
Picture of the Day for June 6, 2015
Walking on the trails to the waterfalls, one can find wildflowers but sometimes you have to look up for birds or other interesting things, like an old dead tree limb which resembles the backside of a bunny standing up with ears flat out plus a round tail.
Interesting Tree Limb
Picture of the Day for June 5, 2015
While the sounds and sights of the waterfalls in Amnicon Falls State Park draws most attention from visitors, other nature’s beauty can be found in the park like the Canada Mayflower growing along the path to Snake Pit Falls.
Canada Mayflower
Picture of the Day for June 4, 2015
It may not get as many visitors as the Upper and Lower Falls on the Amnicon River, but the Snake Pit Falls is an interesting and twisting waterfall. The river splits in two as it flows around an island along the Douglas Fault (site of earthquakes that occurred about a half billion years ago), with the Snake Pit Falls on the far side of the island. Several smaller drops occur upstream from Snake Pit Falls, before it drops about 12 feet and then twists at a 90 degree angle and drops another 10 feet through the narrow gorge. I didn’t hike to the bottom of the second drop so the view is from the 90 degree bend after the first drop.
The Twist of the Snake Pit Falls
A short video of the twisting Snake Pit Falls.
Picture of the Day for June 3, 2015
Rolled up old barbed wire can be photogenic except when it is at my place since it means I haven’t finished cleaning up the old fences or took care of the “pretty yellow flowers” which are behind the wire. The pretty flowers are considered a highly invasive weed which was brought over to North America in the 1700s. Wild Mustard greens can be eaten and the seeds ground for mustard, but can be poisonous to cattle if they eat too much or favor the milk so it is not sellable. So both the old wire and wild mustard are bad things but together they create a pretty picture.
Old and Yellow
Picture of the Day for June 2, 2015
Last evening and this morning, the catbird has been singing up a storm but not the catty mew which which him sound like a cat, but his long song which can last for up to ten minutes as they copy the sounds of other species and stringing them together to make his own song, like his relatives of mockingbirds and thrashers. The Gray Catbird belongs to the genus Dumetella, which means “small thicket” and they can be found in thickets of young trees, dense shrubs and vines.
Cat Sounding Bird
Picture of the Day for June 1, 2015
Although some harvesting of hay was happening last week, it is doubtful any hay will be going through the upper hay loft door on this barn since only a small percentage of hay is put up as loose hay anymore and this old barn styles don’t work for the big round bales of hay.
Retired Barn Loft Door
