July 21, 2024. On my walk in the morning I found an egg not unlike a duck egg. The inner shell seemed strangely thick, as if the egg never developed. I had walked the same area before, so was curious how the egg shell got here. I was low on battery for my good camera […]
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Saturday, July 20, 2024. It was the last day at Plummer’s Trophy Lodge, the lodge, and time to capture some of the characters we hung out with all week. Mark is at the far left, then Ina, Brent and Ted. On the right side of the table is Doug, whom we will see in 2025
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Friday, July 19, 2024. Mark and I take small live traps with us on our adventures, and this was second morning with a sprung trap. Mark walked with me the short distance to the trail where I’d left the trap the night before. I ran video as a vole slowly emerged from the trap, onto Mark’s
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Thursday, July 18, 2024. I did my morning walk and saw a chipping sparrow launching from a tree. We have chipping sparrows in MIchigan. I just never have time to photograph them. But that’s all I saw. It was strangely quiet. As if the winds from last night had blown some of the birds away.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024. I was up at 1:56 a.m. and took this photo in the land of the midnight sun. At home in Michigan in the summer, it’s dark at 1:56 a.m. in the summer. One think I like about fishing trips is that sometimes you meet really nice people and you want to
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Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Mark was up before the 6:15 alarm again, ready to go. I passed on my walk around the property and bundled up to greet a chilly morning. We set out to an area called the XFiles again. The XFiles being 45-60 minutes away, I had time to contemplate why the water
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Monday, July 15, 2024. Mark and I always take small live traps with us on our adventures, and I put one right outside the back door near our room, on the ground, with a peanut. In the morning, Mark came with me, opened the trap and this vole came out. We believe it’s a red-back
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Sunday, July 14, 2024. We were up at 5:30 and checked out in minutes. For breakfast, we ate a couple of pastries we’d gotten yesterday at the grocery store, drank some Gatorade/water and packed up. Mark used the in-room Kuerig to make a cup of coffee. We met Yvonne–another Plummer’s Lodge employee–in the lobby and she checked
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Saturday, July 13, 2024. We were up at 9:00 and off to the main level/floor of the Explorer Hotel for a buffet breakfast. I had breakfast potatoes, which were small, bite-sized potatoes and quite tasty; a few eggs; fruit; and orange juice. Mark had a bunch of good stuff, including a pastry that looked like a waffle with
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We also had other prep to do, including getting our two dogs, Winston and Snickers, set up with the food, meds and treats they would need for a 12-day visit to their favorite day spa/hotel. The photo to the right shows a plastic container packed with food, medicine and instructions for our pups. Thursday, July
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