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A Massive Oil Pipeline Lurking Beneath the Great Lakes Is Due for a Rupture
If just one of the pipelines ruptured, it would result in a spill of 1.5 million gallons of oil.
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Mackinac Island
Located where the waters of Lakes Huron and Michigan meet at the impasse of Michigan’s peninsulas, you can only get to Mackinac Island by boat. That gives the painfully picturesque, tiny island the quality of feeling lost somewhere in time… not unlike the movie famously filmed on the island, Somewhere in Time. Mackinac Island is all about biking, shopping, and eating, as well as gawking at all the pastel-colored historic Victorian homes, marveling at the absence of motorized vehicles, and dodging road apples from all the horse-drawn carriages. Touristy, yes. Magical? Undoubtedly. It’s basically a Michigan beach town theme park.
More on:https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/19-michigan-beach-towns-ranked
Lake Michigan in foreground from the International Space Station, February 2, 2012
This nighttime image, photographed by one of the members of the Expedition 30 crew from the International Space Station, features the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area strung along the southwest shore of Lake Michigan. The region is partially covered by clouds, probably low-hanging, or even fog. Meteorologists say there is a fine line between low thin clouds and fog. Fog is not common in the Great Lakes area this time of the year (usually too windy), but this has been an exceptionally mild winter. The faint gold line of airglow—caused by ultraviolet radiation exciting the gas molecules in the upper atmosphere—parallels the horizon or Earth limb. Minor auroral activity (Borealis) is visible in upper right.
(courtesy of the NASA Image and Video Library)
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The Lottie Cooper sank in the Sheboygan harbor in 1894, but today you can walk through the wreck of this ill-fated Great Lakes schooner.
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Gichigamii.
Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community. My ancestral homeland. Woodlands on the shores of Lake Superior.
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Sunset Reflection by Natasha L.
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Sunset reflecting off of a condo building in Hamilton, ON.
Craneby Natasha L.
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Tower cranes have always been fascinating to me.
Water on the Rocks
A stunning roll cloud moving over Lake Michigan…….
Living life in the Great Lakes. People outside the area have no idea how much that water affects our world here. From Roll Clouds and micro bursts to Lake effect snow measured by feet to the 25 foot waves of a north easter winter storm. It even effects the planting zones here and supplies all the water we drink.
What@one-epiclife said…all of that geography..and it is so pretty
Days of 1908: proof of Cavafy concept
Days of 1908: proof of Cavafy concept
In a corner of an image
“R. R. Station and Park, Petoskey, Mich.,” 1908. Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016814610/
an incidental detail which includes a cloud of steam vanishes at the instant of its passage through time into memory. But thereby it entrains itself in forever.
