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This was a fun day back in May.  We were in Disney with family and decided we'd make a run out to the ocean for part of the day.  We played at Coco Beach for a while until the kids got tired and hungry.  We packed up and were headed to the cars.  While rinsing sand off, someone heard that there...

Because I was guilted into posting a photo because it's been so long, here we go.   This is from Feb 2021.  The name of the rock, fittingly, is Hollow Rock.  It's just sound of Grand Portage MN, near the Canadian Border.  It was a solid -25F this morning, absolutely frigid.  I had all kinds of...

So after sitting down to review my last two years of reading, I decided I didn't want to have to put together that list again. 😛 It's also nice to have a full record of what I've read. I'll plan to keep this updated and include some older reads as well. So here is an inventory of my past...

Hi fellow book readers.  As many of you know, I've made it a priority in my life to make time every day for pleasure reading (I read a lot for work as well but I don't count that).  Usually, this is in the form of 5-45 minutes of reading before going to sleep (depending on how tired I am and how...

Hot black tea for me.  Don't put milk in tea.  It's sacrilege.  If you want milk, drink milk.  If you want tea, drink tea.   I do enjoy oolong on occasion as well.  A good mint tea can be good as well.   Fun story, the best mint tea I ever had was from this mountain tea house in Banff National...

Here's a little more of a cheery photo.  The Little Lurker has a couple of these bins of little plastic bears.  They're a great learning tool that evolves from fine motor control development (picking up, transferring from one container to another, etc....), to color recognition, to counting. ...

Here's a simple photo of a lily from my Grandmother's garden.  I've captured a lot of photos from this particular garden of hers over the years.  She took so much pride in the care and detail she put into her gardens I was always in awe as they grew.  Sadly, my Grandmother passed away last month...

Back in 2014, Lake Superior froze over, allowing access to the Apostle Island Ice Caves.  It only happens once or twice a decade so, somewhat spur of the moment, we cut our Winter Adventure short and drove down the north shore and up the south shore of Superior.  It's about a half mile walk out...

I trust everyone has had a joyful holiday season.  Just wanted to share a quick photo from our Christmas tree this year from earlier in the week.  Taken with my phone so not the highest quality.  Get's the point across...  

Went for a walk for the first time in a while.  Just hit a regional park in my area.  Grabbed my camera, not expecting to find much.  It was mid-day, overcast, wet mushy snow, etc...  So I knew I'd be looking for the small details.  When I came around a corner, I found this nice little piece of...

"Superior Beach" is a pebble beach on the north shore of Lake Superior in Tettegouche State Park.  It's a fun spot to check out in all seasons because it's usually pretty protected, with calm clear water, the beach, and a rocky point you can play around on to see the lake.  It is also really...

@Menhera, get in here and bring this thread back to life with me.  :)   During my winter adventures, we usually make a point to catch sunrise out in some frozen place.  We had nice cool weather and clear skies.  The clouds you can see over Lake Superior is "sea smoke".  Basically it's fog that...

A number of years ago, my sister and her family lived in the suburbs of Chicago.  We decided to take a trip into the city and visited Millennium Park.  Lots of cool stuff to see and do around that area.  Not sure what this was, but it was really green and wide open so I decided to take a...

I was down in Dallas for work a few years ago.  Mrs. Lurker joined me for part of the trip and we spent some time wandering around Dallas and Fort Worth.  (Fort Worth was way better than Dallas fwiw.)  As we got to the evening, I wanted to find a place to take a sunset photo.  So I scoured the...

I'm a bit overdue and didn't search too hard to find something truly epic.  Instead you get a nice silhouette of my buddy taking a shot of peppermint schnapps at sunset, after a couple mile hike to a nice overlook on the Superior Hiking trail.  As a part of our annual winter adventure, we've...