jwalk outside 🍁 🦋 🪶

Summer weekends, let’s go!

#PureMichigan #LakeSuperior

Looking up through tall trees, showing a canopy of green leaves against a bright sky, with a sense of tranquility and nature's height.

Always look up at the trees. It always makes me feel better.

#ThickTrunkThursday #ThickTreeThursday #TreeThursday #ThursdayGreen

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUp
#Photography 📷

Man, that sucks.

Just used this service for a backpacking trip, what a wonderful service!

Two boys face away from the camera, sitting on rocks in the woods

Camping trips and hiking trails with these two were not always fun, but I hope that the lasting memories will lead them to embrace nature's magic in the future, on their own terms.

Small white mushrooms grow on the side of a stump. These are made of small clusters of dangling "teeth"

Extra toothy

#MushroomLover #FungiFriends

A favorite from my archive a day: Chocolate tube slime mold/Stemonitis splendens (the tiny “legs” always get me).
#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

Me too! Hope to see some next week!

A tree grows on top of a large rock, it's roots grow down around the tock

A tree with a strong foundation.

North Country Trail
Alberta, MI

#ForestFriday #ISeeMoss #NorthCountryTrail
#TreeLover

Throwback: When I hiked from Tahquamenon River to the Grand Sable Visitor Center on the #NorthCountryTrail in 2019 it was peak mosquito season, but it was also summer bloom season. From pink lady's slipper to purple pitcher plants.
What flower do you look forward to seeing in bloom?

A cluster of mushrooms grow on a tree trunk covered with bright green moss.

Quite the cluster

#FungiFriends #MushroomMonday #ISeeMoss

Forest Service won’t issue Boundary Waters canoeing permits at busy Ely and Grand Marais ranger stations U.S. Forest Service officials have informed Boundary Waters permit holders and cooperating businesses that they won’t be issuing canoeing permits this coming season at popular ranger stations in Ely a...

📢 Heads up for Boundary Waters visitors: You’ll no longer be able to pick up permits in person at the Kawishiwi and Gunflint ranger stations. Starting this season, all permits must be picked up at a local cooperator. Learn more:
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

A forest in spring with very sparse leaves. The sun is shining through the tree trunks. A rocky ridge is seen in the distance.

Early spring in the woods.

Potowatomi State Park, WI

#ForestFriday #Scape

A leaf covered trail goes past gray rocks with many thin layers visible. Trees and moss grow on top of the rocks.

Niagara Escarpment

#DoorCounty #RockinTuesday

Two caramel colored mushrooms nestled among some grass. These mushrooms are a bit glossy with white patches on top.

If salted caramel where a mushroom.

#FungiFriends #MushroomMonday

A mourning dove perches on a redbud branch, the tree in bloom with lovely pink clumps of flowers. The dove is showing off their right side.

A mourning dove perches on a redbud branch, the tree in bloom with lovely pink clumps of flowers. The dove is showing off their backside.

A mourning dove perches on a redbud branch, the tree in bloom with lovely pink clumps of flowers. The dove is showing off their left side.

I adore mourning doves. This one was a very good model for me, showing off all their angles! 🪶
#nature #wildlife #birds #doves #mourningdoves

A dark morel mushroom peaking out from the leaf litter on a the ground in the woods.

Bringing home dinner,
because there were mushrooms.

#FungiFriends #MorelMushrooms #ExploreMore #Foraging

Abolish April Fool’s day. Society has moved past the need for April Fool’s day

A cluster of small slick looking gray mushrooms with long slim stems.

Spent the whole hike bent over,
because there were #mushrooms.

#FungiFriends #TheLittleThings

A large domed sand hill, seen through a patch of pine trees. A trail is visible on the left.

I'm not sure what the explanation is for this conical sand dune in the middle of the woods. It's always fun to come up on something while hiking that makes you say "huh, wonder why that is that way?"

Near Lake Superior on #NorthCountryTrail

#MarchIntoLandscapes | Dune

An arched wood and steel bridge spans a river in Northern Minnesota.

Beauty of a bridge near Giants Ridge on the Mesabi Trail in Minnesota.

#BlueSkyArtShow | Arch

Day 27 of #MarchIntoLandscapes theme #Misty And sometimes the canyon just throws you moods. #GrandCanyon #NationalParks #AppreciatePublicLands #ParkChat

Day 27 of #MarchIntoLandscapes theme #Misty

And sometimes the canyon just throws you moods.

#GrandCanyon #NationalParks #AppreciatePublicLands #ParkChat

A path full of puddles leads to a lone tree standing in a field on a foggy day.

"Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf." - Albert Schweitzer
#MarchintoLandscapes #misty #trees #nature #treeoftheday #photography #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #capecod

North Country Trail outside Grand Rapids, MN

#MarchIntoLandscapes | Misty
#Hiking #Minnesota

Thursday's Yooper sunrise from the northwestern shore of Lake Michigan. #mymichigan #906Life

Fleshy colored mushrooms grow from a moss and lichen covered tree trunk. The mushrooms strongly resemble ears.

Took the side trail
Because there were mushrooms.

#fungifriends #backpacking #iseemoss #superiorhikingtrial #mushrooms

Northern lights tonight over the Keweenaw! #auroraborealis

Thanks, it was a beautiful day!

Bright blue sky with whisky clouds reflects on the dark winding Peshekee river in the yoop.

The river and I were both on a journey that day.

On the North Country Trail crossing the Peshekee River in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#TheJourney
#Backpacking
#PureMichigan