Our our friend's hospitality in Union Pier.
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Top left is Laughing Whitefish Falls. Lower left is the reflection of the falls in a pool at the bottom. The big picture is the reflection flipped upside down and cropped. I think I like it best!
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Signs at the International Food Fest in Marquette.
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You turn around and notice there are a pair of Sandhill cranes right by the road. Then the dog notices the Sandhill cranes and that's that.
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Rock, like small towns all over the U.P., like small towns all across the country, disproportionately--but with great pride--sends its sons (and now its daughters) to war. Many of them survived. Many did not. Rock remembers them all.
Rajala, Kivela, Maki, Seppala. Classic U.P. names.
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