stormdog: (Tawas dog)
Some of the stillest water I've ever photographed.

This is at Clark's Landing in Crystal Falls, Michigan. It's named after Joseph Clark, a Navy Seal killed in Iraq. Kuma and I stopped here to stretch our legs.


Clark's Landing - Crystal Falls, Michigan


While I don't want to live anywhere but in a city, pictures like this do make me miss being up north.

Pictures of the shrine of Bishop Baraga, whose large statue stands on a cloud supported by five large steel beams coming out of Indian Tepees, as well as a bunch more photos and commentary, behind the cut. )
stormdog: (Tawas dog)
Failing at throwback Thursday again.

Here I am in May of 2008, at a monument marking the 45th parallel, halfway between the Equator and the North Pole.

My dog, Kuma the Wonder Akita, and I took a road trip all by ourselves from Kenosha up to the Keweenaw Peninsula for a weekend. We slept in our car, ate cold Spaghetti-O's out of a can (well, I did; dog food for him), and stopped every damn place that caught my interest. Heavens, I miss trips like this.


45 Degrees North


My pictures from back then are so interesting to me. There are a few gems, but most of them make me think of all the things I'd do differently now. Some of them would benefit from cropping and reframing too, but if I start doing that, they're never going to get posted!

I'll probably give a bit more attention to shots of old rusting mining equipment and other ruins. That's mostly what I go up there to photograph.

A couple more behind the cut. )

Flu?

Dec. 13th, 2014 05:57 am
stormdog: (Kira)
I just spent an hour and a half lying abed, twisting and turning under the covers with aches, chills, a very mild cough and sore throat, and no ability to fall asleep. I think I might just have the flu. Since I'm up anyway, I'll do some more work on my application that's due today.

The last time I was notably sick was a year ago at the same exact time Lisa was in the hospital after emergency surgery. I have a knack for poor timing.

So that this update isn't all bad, here's a picture of me with a very different kind of flue in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. This is part of the ruins at the Quincy Number 2 copper mine.



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