I haven’t put a new photo out there in a long time, and I wanted to use this opportunity to dig through my archive of RAW files and do something I enjoy while at my desk. This photo was taken at first light at our camp in Tettegouche State Park. It’s a reminder that in these times of trouble, it always seems darkest just before the dawn. Sitting here, thinking about better days ahead.
We drove into town to watch the fireworks from the roof of the hospital Lieblings works at. The are shot form a barge on the bay of Lake Superior.
We got a tour of the lab Lieblings works in and he brought us to the morgue! No pics for legal reasons but we saw a surprising amount of preserved organs, a huge freezer for body parts, the table they do all the work on, and surprise… There was a body in the walk-in cooler! I thought the most amazing feature was that the push-open doors are heat activated. He assumed so a corpse riding a gurney doesn’t accidentally get pushed into a busy hallway but I think we all know the real reason: zombie containment. ;P
I mean, Lake Michigan is big enough to be a sea. All the Great Lakes are, they’re not considered seas because they’re not all at sea level, they’re all freshwater, and they’re not directly connected to the ocean (they’re only connected through rivers and lochs)
Small lakes don’t have noticeable waves but because the Great Lakes are so big there’s enough room for the air to downdraft across it (which is also why in Michigan you get lake effect weather and so it can be a blizzard one day and 70° the next)
My grandmother, who grew up in Puerto Rico, when seeing Lake Michigan for the first time with my grandfather exclaimed, “This is not a lake, it is a sea!”
Lake Superior has tides. They’re not as dramatic as the actual ocean’s of course. But still. For every storm that kicks up 200ft spray and waves that crash over the tops of the lighthouses on the piers, there’s days when you can’t tell where the water meets the sky.
Lake Superior doesn’t have a monster, Lake Superior IS the monster.
lake superior (gichi-gami in ojibwe) has enough water in it cover both america’s in a foot of it. it contains 10% of the worlds fresh surface water! it’s 1333 ft deep!!! she’s Big
They say that she doesn’t give up her dead either.
Man living nearby all the great lakes when I first saw what Most people consider a lake, I thought it was just a super big pond kinda thing
There’s a reason why they’re called “great” lakes.
The funniest thing about growing up near the Great Lakes is watching things like this and being like, “Oh, yeah, we used to go there on field trips!”
Reblogging because Caitlin Doughty is fantastic and everyone should watch her videos
