The river thunders by at your very feet, sending up a fine, cool mist — refreshing to a weary hiker!

Stone steps lead the way to another waterfall…

Berge girls and Kastner girls, intrepid explorers of the Northwoods.

Wild lupin! Now why don’t we have any of this ’round our place?

The weekend, full to bursting with activity, is [...]

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Upper Falls; Tettegouche State Park

The name of this beautiful flowering shrub remains a mystery to me…

Sun shining on the ferns and Breanna’s hair… Don’t you love natural light?

Water swirls by a dark cave, hollowed out of the rocky banks.

Follow the leader?

Searching for agates that may have been washed up on the beach. Even I (a [...]

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Time onward flows like a river vast,
While age on age it has borne to the sea;
And down this stream we have come at last,
To see time end in eternity.
What is this life but a fleeting day?
Soon death will come with a stern decree;
Then one by one we must pass away,
And change from time to eternity.
A [...]

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A Flag Waves Over Pearl Harbor as Dawn Breaks
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, long may it wave,
O’er the land of the [...]

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Last weekend, our family accepted an invitation to join the Kastners for a wonder-filled weekend on the northern shores of Lake Superior, the largest of the five Great Lakes. “Great” is certainly the word for it! The expanse of water stretches endlessly–like an ocean! Highway 61 runs along the coast, tunneling under great rocky cliffs [...]

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