The cloudy day and cold temperature didn’t allow much melting of snow today so icy culvert in yesterday’s picture, still doesn’t appear green and flowing like it did six months later in the year.
Thawed Culverts
Picture of the Day for March 23, 2018
The highway department has been busy thawing out frozen culverts where the melting snow is causing water to run over the road. But those culverts don’t look as interesting or as pretty as these near Houghton Falls, where when this ice melts, it will flow into Lake Superior.
Frozen Culverts
Picture of the Day for November 24, 2014
Water can exist in three phases (solid, liquid and gas) and found in different locations (in the air, on the surface or below the ground). Well I’m not overly happy watching water falling in the form of snow blowing pass my window this morning. I much rather see the water falling in the form of a river and waterfall instead!
Watching Water Fall
Picture of the Day for September 24, 2014
The arrival of the railroad in 1883 to Washburn (south of Bayfield, WI) stimulated quarrying and logging activities. There was three quarries located in the area known as Houghton Point and the railway carried the brownstone building material to Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Cincinnati.
The Houghton Point quarry opened in 1892 but the brownstone industry quickly ended by 1903 as the stone was replaced by concrete and other building materials. And eventually, the rail service was discontinued and abandoned. The old railway cuts through the Houghton Falls State Natural Area and the old railway culverts over the creek still exists, although I wouldn’t want to have derailed by the deep ravine as the creek drops sixty feet as it makes it way into Lake Superior.
Old Railway Over Plunging Creek
Picture of the Day for August 12, 2014
At the end of the dog days of summer, it is almost hard to remember that six months ago I was dealing with minus 25 degree wind chills during a very cold winter in which most of Lake Superior was frozen over, as seen here from Houghton Point near Washburn, Wisconsin.
Houghton Point
