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These days.....many areas have too much rain...or not nearly enough... We could use some, but we had a lot of rain this spring... So growth has been lush... And crops apparently are catching up, after a slow cold and wet start... The sky in this pic did not bring much at all......
Hoping your area is getting just enough!
There has been a lot of stormy weather around here the last few days and so I thought I would post a shot from a couple summers ago. I was up north at the family cottage on Lake Huron when this storm blew up from across the lake. It was very cool to watch the storm with an unobstructed view as it came across the water.
Great Lakes Michigan and Huron are actually one body of water, joined by the Straits of Mackinac (pronounced "Mackinaw" for you non-midwestern viewers) and share the same water level. In July of 2020 the lakes reached a record high level and the shoreline in this photo was at the bases of the downed trees. The lakes have dropped about three feet since then. Storm waves during the high water severely eroded the shoreline and undercut the adjacent forests, producing scenes like this in natural areas.
This photo was taken along the beach of the Lake Huron Coastal Preserve, a natural, old-growth forest area in Alabaster Township, Iosco County, Michigan. The area was recently acquired by the Township from USG Co., via Huron Pines conservation organization as a facilitator. The beach shown is almost a mile long and is lined with downed tree for much of its length. Some say to leave it natural and some want to clear the beach.
If you want to do a little math, you can calculate in gallons or liters, about how much water was lost in the last year and a half: combined area of lakes Michigan and Huron is about 45,410 square miles (117,612 square kilometers) and the drop is about 3 feet (1 meter).
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This projection into Lake Huron at Port Austin Michigan is supposedly the northern most point of the Thumb. It's private land and is adjacent to the geological phenomenon "Turnip Rock"
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in the end, last night's sunset was NOT spectacular....yet the 3/4 rs of the hour before that was wonderful...and the first pic I took was the ring-billed gull....on the roof of Jerry's Fries...patiently waiting for..... !
Small cedar tree growing in a rock shelter. Georgian Bay side of Bruce National Park, Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada. 24 June 2013
Since motorized vehicles are not allowed on the Island, horses get to haul their own food @ Mackinac Island, Mi. (121749)*
First one I have seen for quite a while....!
From Wikipedia...
"A sun dog (or sundog) or mock sun, formally called a parhelion[1] (plural parhelia) in meteorology, is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a bright spot to the left and/or right of the Sun. Two sun dogs often flank the Sun within a 22° halo.
The sun dog is a member of the family of halos, caused by the refraction of sunlight by ice crystals in the atmosphere. Sun dogs typically appear as a pair of subtly colored patches of light, around 22° to the left and right of the Sun, and at the same altitude above the horizon as the Sun. They can be seen anywhere in the world during any season, but are not always obvious or bright. Sun dogs are best seen and most conspicuous when the Sun is near the horizon."
Project 365, 2022 Edition: Day 260/365
One of the reasons it was so urgent to replace the old camera when it died recently was that we had already booked a weekend in Tobermory. The reason we did so was largely because I wanted to photograph what I consider one of the most beautiful parts of Ontario, around Bruce Peninsula National Park, which I hadn't visited since 2006. Danny had never been there before; we were dating by 2006, but it was a summer outing for just me and my teenaged children.
While I would have happily driven all that way (3 hours from home) simply for the chance to photograph a fringed gentian or the incredible sea blue water of Indian Head Cove, what really made it worthwhile was how much Danny enjoyed it. While he eagerly encourages my love of nature, he isn't readily comfortable outdoors the way I am. In fact he doesn't normally like to get his feet wet. But the best moment of the weekend was at Singing Sands on Dorcas Bay which is so shallow you can wade right across the bay without getting your shorts wet. The sand is fine and soft and the play of afternoon sunlight through the ripples is mesmerizing. The weather was windy and warm.
Danny was enchanted. By Saturday afternoon I was already knackered from all the trekking around I'd led him on, but at Singing Sands I seriously had trouble keeping up with him. It was our favourite day of the whole summer. We're already thinking up plans to return.
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We have all survived this big party weekend for Jim's 80th...with lots of help from family and friends......but it will be a day or two before I get caught up with this machine...haven't even looked at the relatively few photos I took...and I have not yet had time for a walk...so out I go right now...and then I'll begin catching up.
These photos were all taken sometime in the last two weeks.
I don't know the name of the flowers...there were growing in the wild...though I suspect someone helped them escape from a garden, perhaps years ago.
The birds are great egrets...we are regularly seeing them along the shoreline...though I suspect that all the local egrets are nesting on Chantry Island. It's a pleasure to see them. ...as it is not much more than ten years they've been here at all...they seem to be slowly spreading northwards.
Some info from Wikipedia follows :
" Hen and chicks (also known as Hen-and-chickens) is a common name for a group of small succulents belonging to the flowering plant family Crassulaceae, native to Europe and northern Africa. They grow close to the ground with leaves formed around each other in a rosette, and propagating by offsets. The "hen" is the main plant, and the "chicks" are the offspring, which start as tiny buds on the main plant and soon sprout their own roots, taking up residence close to the mother plant.
Hen and chicks is also the popular name of a strain of opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, in which the seed head is surrounded by clusters of smaller heads.
Plants commonly referred to as "Hens and chicks" include ground hugging species of Sempervivum (Houseleeks) such as Sempervivum Pekinese, Sempervivum arachnoideum (Cobweb Houseleek), and Sempervivum tectorum (Common Houseleek); the related genus Jovibarba. The description below provides characteristics of Sempervivum and Jovibarba only.
Description
Aside from the common morphology, the many species of hen and chicks differ widely in appearance. Colours range from lime green to burgundy to purple, and size varies from as small as 1 cm to as large as 20 cm across. The leaves can be thin and spiky or thick and rounded with a pointed tip. Some, such as Cobweb Houseleek, have fine spiderweb-like filaments that grow naturally from leaf edge to leaf edge, forming a white cover on the top of the plant, while others have fine hairs that cover the entire plant structure.
Upon maturity (usually around three to four years old) the plant will send up a single stalk that can reach 5-25 cm tall. The head of the stalk is a cluster of star-shaped flower buds 1-2 cm in diameter, which range in color from dark pink to yellow and that flower for several weeks. After blooming, the plant will die. Usually by this time it has produced many offsets ('chicks'). "
******** The ones pictured here are in a neighbour's raised bed, exposed to the strong winter winds off the lake...and yet they have survived happily for the many years I have been walking along the shore road. They seem very colourful and vigorous this year...perhaps due to all the rain we have had .
along the beach, from South Street.... Lake Huron..... and the tourists have gone home...but I had a gull for company..... and I found some neat teeth......
an incoming (small) wave along the beach on the shore of Lake Huron…. processed entirely in LR5
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