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Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos

Boca Grande, Florida

Boca Grande, Florida

Earlier this year we managed a reprieve from 2017/2018's harsh Minnesota winter. The beaches of Boca Grande, Florida played host to our family for a week while snowy Minnesota... got more snow.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
Sand sculpted from the tides.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
A shape I cannot make.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
It was a great year for sand dollars!

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
Boca Grande Rear Range Lighthouse.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
One of many sunsets on the beach.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
Pictured are four generations of Reid/Moran/Sepeta ladies 🙂

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
Washed up adolescent Bonnethead shark.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
My brother and father inlaws made this remarkable sandcastle. Passerbys were quite literally remarking on how neat it was!

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
Boca Grande sunrise on the beach.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
More Boca Grande beach sunrise.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
The whole clan heading out to watch the setting sun.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
A magnificent sunrise. Again, in Boca Grande.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
The seagulls were enjoying the morning, too.

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Middlemoon Creekwalk

Middlemoon Creekwalk – Minnehaha Creek

Middlemoon Creekwalk 2018

Yesterday evening we made the short-but-snowy trek to Lynnhurst Park to experience the 2018 Middlemoon Creekwalk, put on by Wintercraft. These great folks volunteer their time, skills, and resources to provide the community with a spectacular candle-lit evening walk down the last portion of Minnehaha Creek into Lake Harriet. They created a variety of ice globes, lanterns, and artworks that were then illuminated by candles burning from dusk and into the night.

We had the good fortune of getting to go during a snowstorm, and we wouldn't have had it any other way! Here are some photos.

Middlemoon Creekwalk
Open water in the snowstorm - always a favorite.

Middlemoon Creekwalk
There must have been a thousand mallards swimming around, enjoying the human visitors.

Middlemoon Creekwalk
Not quite dark, but getting there!

Middlemoon Creekwalk
Had to go a little early to accommodate somebody's bed-time 🙂

Middlemoon Creekwalk
The lanterns hanging above the creek were among our favorites.

Middlemoon Creekwalk
The lanterns IN the creek were also favorites!

Middlemoon Creekwalk
The moving water was really interesting against the snowstorm and ice lanterns.

Middlemoon Creekwalk
More hanging lanterns.

Middlemoon Creekwalk
Getting buried in snow!

Middlemoon Creekwalk
We liked the bumpy texture here.

Middlemoon Creekwalk
So very neat!

Middlemoon Creekwalk
The frozen leaves were something to behold.

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Boundary Waters Northern Lights Photo

2013 BWCA – Little Indian Sioux South, Bootleg Lake

2013 BWCA - Little Indian Sioux South, Bootleg Lake

In the Fall of 2013 we went on a wonderful Boundary Waters trip. Myself and two tripping buddies went in at Little Indian Sioux South and spent a week by ourselves on Bootleg Lake before heading back the way we came. We had planned on a vigorous trip covering lots of ground and water, but Bootleg was so ideal this particular trip that we decided to stay, until/unless more people moved into the lake. No one came, so we stayed for 7 nights on Bootleg, enjoying pleasant weather and a multitude of frogs, sunsets, and Aurora Borealis.

Boundary Waters Mushroom Photos -1
Top-down view of a classic BWCA fungus.

Boundary Waters Moss Photos -2
Macro moss. This great stuff is everywhere.

Boundary Waters Moss Photos -2
Looking out over a drop-off.

Boundary Waters Dog Photos -4
One tired pooch.

Dusky stars reflecting over the water.
Dusky stars reflecting over the water.

Boundary Waters Food Photos -7
Preparing for the "Hobo Pie" meal, which consists of these ingredients, cut and divided into aluminum packets, cooked directly in the coals.

Subject A

Subject B

Boundary Waters Frog Photo
This frog was more than willing to pose for some macro shots.

Boundary Waters Frog Photo
Thanks Frog!

Boundary Waters Frog Photo
Top-down view of this BWCA frog!

Boundary Waters Island Photos -13
This island was off our site, and every morning it collected mist from the previous night.

Boundary Waters Canoe Photos -14
My MNII in the morning sunset.

Boundary Waters Sunrise Photos -15
This was a point we could see from our site. I was up at sunrise quite a bit, apparently.

Boundary Waters Dew Photos -16
Some dew in the sunrise, of course.

Boundary Waters Camping Photos -17
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Boundary Waters Camping Photos -17
This caterpillar had collected quite a bit of dew on himself over night, he looked great in the morning glow.

Boundary Waters Northern Lights Photo
We saw the northern lights a few times this trip. This was from the night they came in most clear.

Boundary Waters Northern Lights Photo
Aurora Borealis serves as a fine backdrop for experiments with glow-sticks and long exposures.

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Boundary Waters Rainbow Photo

Big Moose Lake – BWCA Spring 2017

Big Moose Lake - BWCA Spring 2017

In June 2017 we went on a shorter-than-usual BWCA trip, on account of an incoming little one back home. Myself, Lucille, my brother-in-law, and two friends went to Big Moose Lake by way of Moose River South on a 4 night trip. We saw lots of heavy rain, leaving us to quite a few games of Magic the Gathering. On the upside, we got to see many incredible rainbows, including a full end-to-end double rainbow out over the water. I didn't take the camera out too often on account of the incessant rain Here are some photos from the trip:

The long windy dirt road from Ely to the entry point.

Lucille observing the fish holding area.

Up-close photo of a bug on a flower.

Boundary Waters Rainbow Photo
The crew gazing at one of our double rainbows. I don't think Lucille had ever noticed a rainbow before now.

Boundary Waters Caterpillar
A small caterpillar climbing along a tarp line.

Boundary Waters Rainbow Photo
Evening haze with a post-rain mist; the remnants of a rainbow.

Now where the hell are we? What's with all the rain?

Boundary Waters Rainbow Photo
"Lucille, pose in front of the rainbow for me"

Boundary Waters Rainbow Photo
There was a pot of gold behind that rock. We paddled out to claim it and split the loot 5 ways.

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