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| Lake Michigan. | | As Brian mentions in his blog, we traveled to the northern lower peninsula for a weekend away with friends.
Sometimes, in discussing the "Big Lake" as Michiganders call it, with people who've never been there, it's pretty obvious that they're thinking it's some little pond that you can see across. When I mention the beaches, particularly to Californians, they roll their eyes, assuming I mean some tiny little patch of sand.
The beaches up north aren't nearly the huge, sandy dunes of the lower part of the state. Instead, there are plenty of water-smoothed rocks to pick through. Many of these rocks aren't native, and traveled here from Canada thousands of years ago. Now, after their long trip, they wash up on short to rest. Only to be thrown back into the water by me.
Here are a few of the pictures I took.
What these pictures don't show is the huge numbers of shooting stars we saw while laying out on the beach on Friday night. Our friendly neighborhood astronomy professor told us that these were from the Pleiades meteor shower.
(you can find more of these pictures on my flikr account, the link is on the left) Click any picture for a larger version.
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Brian says "Hi!" Either that or he's saying, "Get me a T&T! Liquor's flowin' like mud around here!"
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Don't be such a stick in the mud!
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Lake rocks, from the "basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops -- under the rocks are the words and some of the words are theirs." Norman Maclean
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Sunset over Lake Michigan.
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Whenever I see seagulls now, I can't help but yell, "Mine! Mine! Mine!"
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Sunset over Lake Michigan.
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"What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet."
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Sunset over Lake Michigan.
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Shale Shore, Lake Michigan
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Beach rocks, catching some rays.
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Flutter by, butterfly.
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Friendly bug.
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Scary bug!
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