Where in the Copper Country #12

It’s Wednesday, so it’s time to bring back this weekly series. This week’s picture may be an easy one – if you’ve been there.

Where in the Copper Country is this picture taken?

Guardian of Lake Superior

Back in early April, there was still plenty of snow on the non-beach areas at Calumet Waterworks Park, with some snow and ice still on the beach. I took some pictures of different things, then decided to sit down on a huge log that had washed up on the beach.

I took our camera and just held it down by the ground and took random pictures at different angles. Imagine my surprise when I downloaded the pictures and saw this one showing the root of the log I was sitting on.

I definitely see a face in the log…

As Long as the Sand is Snow-Free…

Now that it’s June, I wonder if I should be posting pics that remind us of the long winter we just left behind. These pics remind me too much of childhood innocence to not share.

Our son loves the sand. It doesn’t matter if it is freezing outside – if the snow has melted enough to expose the sand – he wants to play in it.

Case in point – here’s a sand castle he made mid-April at Great Sand Bay. There should be continuous water in the background, but you can see a large section of ice still hanging on.

The nice thing about being out on the beach so early in the season is that it looks untouched. Like a blanket of white snow begs for a snow angel…the crisp sand begged for a sand angel.

I admit, mom made a sand angel too. But I am out of practice and it didn’t look as nice as our son’s sand angel :)

Coming out of Hibernation…

It’s been a while since I last posted. I have to admit that the long winters get to me and with the day job and working on our new site – I was pretty tired. Now that our new site is almost live (announcement coming soon!), I can start posting regularly on here.

To ease back into the swing of things, I thought I would post some pictures from a presentation last month. I have a few more pictures to post from the last few months and then we’ll be up to date :)

Copper Harbor has an annual Migratory Bird Festival in May. We were unable to participate in all of the activities, and the weather was not that cooperative, but we were able to catch a wonderful presentation on raptors by the Raptor Education Group (REGI) based in Wisconsin.

What would a presentation be without some special guests?!

First up is a peregrine falcon. We learned that these birds are built for speed and they actually use their feet to “knock out” their prey (versus just grabbing them with their talons). This picture does not do this bird justice. It is amazing close-up – so sleek and colorful.

According to the REGI presenter, the saw whet owl is the big star of their presentations. Or, should I say “little” star. The audience couldn’t help but go “awe…” when this little guy came out.

We also saw a rough-legged hawk and a barred owl, but we forgot to bring in our camera and missed a photo opportunity with the hawk (the first bird shown) and the barred owl looked away from me each time I tried to snap a pic. I think he/she was a little camera shy.

Thanks to everyone who made the festival possible. The presentation was a wonderful experience!

Keweenaw Fall Color Video

After posting pictures yesterday of the fall color, I decided to make a movie out of some of our pictures and I uploaded a video to YouTube. This is my first real attempt at a video. It was fun! I might do it more often.