
A small boat on a big lake and the search for a sense of place in Lake Superior’s Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
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It is simple and subtle, hardly more than a gesture, so discreet that it might not even be noticed by someone not watching closely. But after photographing a scene in these islands, something that touches my soul — a sunrise from inside of...
It catches my eye on the last step before I walk into the water to reboard the Little Dipper nosed up on the beach: the last leaf of autumn.
Of course it isn’t the only leaf left on a branch in the entire Apostle Islands but it has that fe...
Sunrise is later. Temperatures drop, and like a hockey player’s smile, B-Dock begins to show gap after gap where boats used to be. It is that time of year.
Haul out has begun at the marina. Row upon row of sailboats are already “on the ha...
An old hayrick rusting in the weeds, a row of apple trees marking the edge of an orchard once a part of a farmstead, a stack of cut brownstone blocks sitting still on the shore endlessly waiting for a ship that will never come.
There is a...
Barely 5 a.m. Pitch dark. No, not “pitch dark.” There is a faint blush of color on the eastern horizon but it is more the hope of daybreak than dawn itself. Outside of the sea cave, the stars are still sharp as chips of diamonds. Inside, an...
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Once an award-winning travel writer, I now work to find depth and beauty in one chosen landscape: Lake Superior's Apostle Islands, aboard a small boat named the "Little Dipper." Join me on the journey.
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