November Blues - Day 341

  It's not what you think! Today was chilly, but it was blue-sky gorgeous. Any November day that looks like this is A-OK with me. In fact, except that it was a bit windy, it was my favorite with cool air and warm sun. No emotional "blues."

It was all road walking today, but sometimes those are fine because you can quickly pound out the miles. At one place we were right on Lake Superior. Now, that's BLUE.

This blue was a much bigger surprise. We saw several lupine in bloom. This is pretty odd since lupine's usual bloom time is in June.

This picture doesn't follow the theme of blue, but I have to show you. I really like it. It's just blackberry leaves and aspen trunks.

Dan Geiger walked with me today. He's in the area for an upcoming Rovers Crew work week.

BONUS SECTION: Superior Falls

I'm not sure why Bill and I didn't go here the other day when we went to the western point of Michigan. This is another trail from the same parking lot. Superior Falls is where the Montreal River falls down the last cliff to reach Lake Superior. You can see a dam and power station in the distance in the photo. This dams the area spanned by the bridge where I'm standing on Thursday. I don't know if eventually the trail will be able to wander down past the falls.

One really intersting thing about this is that Sue went there in the morning after dropping me off. It rained all afternoon and part of the night here yesterday. But apparently all that water had not yet drained down through the watershed. Her pictures clearly show much less water going over the falls. But by mid-afternoon, the falls was roaring. That's quite a time lag.

Miles today: 15.3. Total miles so far: 3977.6.

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