💾 Archived View for midnight.pub › replies › 10011 captured on 2024-12-17 at 19:04:37. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> The sun shines only on the eyes of man but through to the > heart of a child, eh? This cottonwood in particular was > magnificent, but there are plenty of great ones in the > area, too. This guy is a monster, visible from pretty far > away even in the dense forest.
Those of which I spoke were a tenth of a mile (I've not patience for metric conversion) from the southern shore of a Great Lake, and thus en route to dunes and beach.
The locale was a classic case of natural beauty infested with what seemed human locals born of forbidden reproductive liaison, often somewhat toothless. There were monied invaders as well, generally occupying the shores themselves.
We were merely observers - a role I've come to cherish above all other.
> I've found some of my favorite head slaps come from macro > photography. Wait, you mean that little anonymous green > schmear on the ground is actually a complex flower??
Seek more of the bottomless deep, that there be no end to your find.
Boy, you're describing Lake Michigan a bit too uncannily to be a coincidence. The human vagrants, the extravagant (extravagrant?) yuppies stealing the shoreline. I'm a Hoosier myself, and the Lake is always a great place to explore and get a little lost. There's a great book, *Beside Lake Beautiful* by William Quayle (1914), and while he coyly refrains from naming which Great Lake he stayed upon for his memoir, the way he described it was so easily Michigan, it couldn't have been elsewhere.
I've seen Lake Huron, too, and while it is also a fantastic place, it has a completely different energy to Michigan. I hope next year to see Superior, it's just a pretty big drive for me!