Photos of Michigan Lakes and Rivers; Wilderness

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Upper Peninsula • 2024 • 2000-2023
Lower Peninsula • 2024 • 2000-2023

2024 Lower Peninsula

Autumn. 1. Matthei. 2. My Yard. 3,4 Crooked Lake.

Crooked and Pickerel Lakes. 1. Mute swans. 2. Juvenile turkey vulture. 3. Sandhill crane.

Gallup Park. 1. Great blue heron. 2. Juvenile double crested cormorant, moments after swallowing a fish whole. 3. Geese. 4. Ring-billed gull

Crooked Lake Trail

Matthaei Botanical Gardens. The wild flowers are yellow coneflowers (native to MI).

Furstenberg Nature Area

Arboretum: autumn

Arboretum: spring 1. Wild flowers. 2. Storm clouds.

My backyard. Maple.

My backyard. 1. Apple blossom. 2. Black swallowtail (official MI butterfly). 3. Turkeys. 4. Cardinal.

1. Chipmunk. 2. Chirpy Chipmunk. 3. Wary Woodchuck.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could if a woodchuck could chuck wood!

A dragon swallows the sun April 8, 2024: 14:46:53; 15:01:02; 15:11:54; 15:24:16.

2024 Upper Peninsula: wilderness

Unfortunately the photographs can't capture the utter quietness of the wilderness lakes.

Isle Royale (not)

Alas, the ferry to the island was cancelled because of high winds on Lake Superior, so all I got was this gloomy photo of Lake Superior, taken near Copper Harbor.

Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness

1. Mushroom. I think it's: amanita muscaria guessowii. Or perhaps amanita muscaria, hortiboletus,
amanita flavoconia , or amanita muscaria flavivolvata or something totally different!
2. Evening view from Silver Peak (old growth forest). 3. Cascade Rapids on the Sturgeon river.

Sylvania Wilderness (Ottawa National Forest)

1. Early morning. 2. Trumpeter Swan. See below (2000-2023) for more photos of the Sylvania Wilderness.

Porkies (Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park).

1. Tree fungus. 2. Lake of the Clouds from the Escarpment. 3. The Escarpment from Lake of the Clouds.

Craig Lake State Park

1. Early morning fog on Craig Lake. 2. Craig Lake. 3. Craig Lake. 4. Early morning view of Crooked Lake. 5. Spider webs, Crooked Lake. 6. Crooked Lake. 7-8. Clair Lake.

McCormick Wilderness (Ottawa National Forest)

1. Spider web (White Deer Lake trail). 2,3. Paddling on Lower Baraga Lake. 4. Peshekee River.

Tahquamenon Falls State Park

1,2. Kayaking Tahquamenon river outlet. 3. Kayaking Clark Lake. 4. Lower Tahquamenon Falls

Tioga River (Copper Country State Forest)

1. Ruby-throated Humming bird (but female, so white-throated). 2. Canoeing above the falls. 3. Beaver dams and ponds. 4. Above the road. 5. Flowers. 6. Canoeing below the falls. 7. Bear track (4 inches wide across the toes). 8. Nearby moose track.

2000-2023 Upper Peninsula (U.P.)

2023

2022

Yooper Country

Musket 2023

Tioga River (Copper Country State Forest)

Photos from a canoe as thunder clouds threatened; last photo shows a great blue heron 2022.

Tahquamenon Falls State Park

Lower Falls 1.(2022). 2.(2022). 3.(2022). 4. Morning sun hitting the spray (2023) .

From the trail between the falls 2022|2023|2023

Upper Falls 2022.
Way to go!

Seney National Wildlife Refuge: habitat for 200 species of birds

In the early 1900s, the land was logged, and then drained for farming. When the farming failed, it became the property of the State, which has endeavoured to restore it, and made it a wildlife refuge (by 1935, the largest water bird in North America, the trumpeter swan, and many other birds were almost extinct in most of the United States). Now it belongs to the wildlife, except we are permitted to cycle to the ponds along the access roads.

Photos taken while cycling on the forest roads 2022.

Photos taken in 2023. Note the trumpeter swans in the second photo.

The weather was wet and gloomy all day, but towards evening I caught this glimpse of blue sky over one of the ponds. 2023.

Photos taken kayaking on Manistique River 2022.

Kayaking on Wilderness Lakes (only the swish of the paddle and the call of the loon)

Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise---the noise of words, the noise of cars, the noise of music, the noise of signs---we live in constantly. It has sunk as deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of it is the word, whose meaning loses clarity from year to year. (Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, 4,17)

Craig Lake State Park

Craig Lake 2022.

Craig Lake 2023.

Clair Lake 2022, 2023.

Crooked Lake. 1.Lake. 2.Outlet (2022). 3.Portage to lake (0.5 miles). 4.Lake. 5.Lake (wind gusting to 49kph) (2023).

McCormick Wilderness

White Deer Lake and trail 2022

Lower Baraga Lake and trail 2023

Porkies (Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park).

The Lake of the Clouds (2021,2022,2022)

Lake of the Clouds from the Escarpment and Big Carp River trails 2023

Sylvania Wilderness (Ottawa National Forest) (Fourteen down; twenty to go.)

Whitecaps on Clark Lake 2022.

Crooked Lake 2022.

Lone trumpeter swan on Crooked Lake 2022.

Glimmerglass Lake 2022.

Channel to Liluis Lake 2022

Loon Lake (2021, 2019, 2021).

Deer Island Lake (2021, 2019).

Mountain Lake 2022

East Bear Lake 2022, 2023

West Bear Lake (2021, 2022).

Kerr Lake 2023.

High Lake 2021,2023

One day; 7 portages (2.5km). 1. Clark Lake. 2.Loon Lake. 3.Deer Island Lake. 4.Cub Lake. 5.Big Bateau Lake, 6.Same. 7.Florence Lake 2023.

Waterfalls

Bond Falls 2022.

Chapel Falls (Chapel loop trail 2021).

Sable Falls 2022.

On the Tioga River 2022.

Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness

From the Bear's Den 2022.

Sturgeon Rapids 2022.

From Silver Peak 2022.

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

Lake Superior from the Chapel loop trail|cormorants 2021|2021|2023|2023|2023|2023 (arch collapsed in 1999)

Cabin

Cabin 2021, 2023, 2023, 2023

Enjoying the sun (2021, 2022).

Hummingbird 2021.

Canoeing in the wetland below cabin 2021.

Canoeing above cabin; beaver dams 2020, 2023; 2023.

Wolf track --- length is over 12cm. The wolf was seen one evening and morning (2019).

Moose track. Moose weigh 1000lbs, and don't like to be photographed 2022.

Bear scat (berry season) 2023.

2000-2023 Lower Peninsula

1. Potawatomi. 2. Pickerel Lake. 3. Barton Pond. 4,5. Arboretum: spring; autumn.

The Huron river

From the bike trail above Ann Arbor 2022.

Curious deer on river above Argo pond (2021).

Argo pond in AA (2021).

Huron river in AA, autumn 2010 | 2010 | 2022 | 2022

Pond at Gallup Park. 1. (2021). 2.Cormorants (2018). 3.Mute swan and ring-billed gulls (2022).

Turtles, pond at Furstenburg park 2022.

Hudson Mills Park. 1.From the bike trail. 2.Kayaking on the river. 3.Lunch (2023).

Arboretum in Ann Arbor

Winter 2022.

Autumn 2022, 2022, 2022, 2023, 2023.

Spring 2023.

Matthaei Botanical Gardens

Autumn 2023

Potawatomi trail and nearby ponds

Pond by the trail (2009).

Pickerel Lake 2022, 2023, 2023.

Crooked Lake 2023.

Crooked Lake Trail 2022, 2022, 2022, 2023.

My backyard

Fawn on my driveway (2011). Well-shovelled driveway 2022.

View from my study 2022.

1. Apple blossoms. 2. Cardinal. 3.No-mow May. 4. Apples, for the chipmunks. 5. Turkeys on driveway, 2023