I'll be the first to admit that I'm not certain where Dan Brown is with this photo shoot. I know one thing, it's in the U.P., and I'm guessing maybe the central part? Wherever Dan is standing, it's quite an awesome spectacle. The contrast of the darkness being illuminated by the radiant sun gives a heartwarming feeling.

We are continually greatful to all the members of the Pasty Central Guest Gallery who provide such a variety and depth of the beauty of the upper Great Lakes region. There are now over 7,000 photos in the Gallery!

Morn'n all!Nice picture...must be some place bigger than Eagle Harbor....

What a fantastic way to start my Thursday! Absolutely gorgeous picture (now my wallpaper) Thank you for bringing the UP on down to me when I can't bring myself up to God's Country :O)

Good Morning. Marquette upper harbour.

Yeah, Marquette Upper Harbor at sunset.

Breathtaking! And yes, it's Marquette.

Morning! Lovely, just lovely

Sunraise

Great shot, I just love sunrise and sunset photos. There's is a special spirituality around them I think. Anyway, on my way out of the area the other day I happened to be lucky enough to catch this photo of the lift bridge that I'd like to share...time to get to the golf course...

OOPS!! Need another cup of coffee first...Here is the pic....:)

Thanks for all the beautiful photos on this site. Can't wait to go up there around July 4th. Since the 4th is on Sunday, does anyone know the dates for the parades - South Range, Gay, Lake Linden?

Good morning from Genesee! Anyone interested in a pasty cam picnic, read Charlie's post from 8:53 last night. Sounds like a good time!

Even though I'd really like to put faces with the names I see here every day and thank the Pasty Central gang in person for this site I won't be able to make it to the picnic this year. I'll be coming all the way from Connecticut and won't make it to the UP until probably the middle of that week.
Oh well, maybe next year!

Pasties and the '4th of July',.... sounds like a GREAT Yooper-American tradition, looking forward to it...

For about a week now, I've had as my wallpaper Joshua Suomis' iconic photo (week of 4/11/4) of a freighter and the moon riding on and above the vastness of Lake Superior. It has come to bother me. My problem is the boat. It has neither bow wave nor wake. The sun appears to be shining brightly on its port side, although the lake itself suggests a bright but lightly clouded sky. Most of all, the Columbia Transit vessel appears too large to be as close to the horizon as the small arc of water 'behind' it suggests. In other words: Was the boat actually there, or was it carefully dropped in from some other photo? Either way, it's a stunning image. Comments?

Will we get to meet Toivo at the picnic??

<Toivo sez>:

Are you kiddin'? A free pasty?? Wild horses couldn't keep me away!

July 4, 11am-4pm, Agassiz Park, Calumet

I'm on the Hubbell Fire department and all the stuff
we do is on the 3rd this year, including the parade
thru Lake Linden, Hubbell and Tamarack City.

This probably means Gay also right afterwards, but I'm not sure.

Marquette at the Presque Isle taconite dock.

Get a load of this beautiful picture I just found on E-bay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20216&item=2242638998

this is the same area as todays picture only taken from downtown Marquette...

I think it's a nice picture. I like all of the sunrise and sunset pictures people have posted. It's sometimes nice to imagine yourself being there. Better than being at work anyway..

I agree, kc

Morning from Houston, shall I say soaking wet Houston. Haven't seen the sun for a while so its nice to log on to Pasty.Net and see one staring back at me. Good job!

Good morning. I'm happy to see that someone else is curious about the freighter/moon picture, which by the way is my wallpaper right now. I have a slightly different question. At first I assumed that the shot was taken from the shore out into Superior, and realized that the moon couldn't have been there, in the north. Then I noticed that there was some land appearing in the right-hand side of the shot. That made me think the photographer was standing somewhere along White Fish Bay. Does anyone know exactly? Whatever, it's a beautiful picture.

I took a closer look at this beautiful photo and I think appears to be Photoshopped. If you enlarge it, you can see that the boat is not in the water, but placed on top of. Very well done. Lovely to look at.
Wish I knew how to create this kind of artwork.

A princess who lived near a bog
Met a prince in the form of a frog,
Now she and her prince
Are the parents of quints,
Four boys and one fine pollowog.

There was an old man of Calcutta,
Who coated his tonsils with butta,
Thus converting his snore
From a thunderous roar
To a soft oleaginous mutta.

Couldn't help but think of Mr. Wheatman when I saw this. :>)

Since gas is $2 a gallon in Detroit, whats a current price up there ?? Need to know if I need a home-equity loan to purchase gas for the trip north this summer>>>

$2.09 is the price at the pumps today.....

to rice lake gary....if you end up needing that home equity loc, let me know...i work at a bank.....LOL....seriously, i was in the soo about 3 weeks ago and it was $1.60 a gallon...which was about 28 cents less than mackinaw city

Troll in Eagle Harbor. Sorry to read in yesterdays Lansing State Journal, www.LSJ.com, of your Aunt Germaines death. She was 5 years ahead of me in school. Wasn't she the youngest of your mom's family? I remember your grandpa from the mid 40"s. Adolph I believe, lived on Dietz Road just north of M-36.

By Aunt Mary on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 12:36 pm:

Brad in Canton: Just scrolled through your slide pictures and boy are they ever great. Sure miss all of you and can't wait to see you all. The kids are sure getting big. Your scenery pictures are beautiful. Thanks for the picture of St. Paul's Church in Calumet. You should take some of the inside at St. Joseph's in Lake Linden and post them on Pasty.com. Love to all of you
Aunt Mary

Hmmm...took a CLOSE look at the Snow Thermometer today. Seems it is resting on some sort of "ground."

Of course it COULD be a fake snow thermometer. I mean, how could it be real? Probably photoshopped too...NO ONE could get that much snow.....

Just Kidding

I don't think the picture of the ship is doctored. If it is then he went to great pains to put waves next to the ship and add the wispy smoke without interrupting the gentle shading in the sky behind it.
It also looks like the ship is sitting idle in the water or moving very slowly just as the sun broke. That would give it no wake and only a small roll for a bow wave and the lake wouldn't be lit up by the sun but the ship would.
As for the closeness to the shore - I don't know. Maybe he was out in a boat to get a closer shot and a different perspective.

That picture shows one of the many reasons I am glad to go to the college in the UP

Great picture DB!

Hi Aunt Mary, Not too much longer before we see you again...........

Just got back from lunch and the gas prices in the burbs of Detroit range from $1.98 to $2.13...and climbing.....well, looks like we won't be coming up to the Yoop this summer. I'm sure this is not going to be good for tourism.

It looks great from Kansas City.... Marquette's Upper Harbor that is!!!

Hey, Harry M. I'm a PastyCam regular. Are you originally from KC or a displaced Michiganian?

I think the freighter picture is the real thing. Because of the angle, you can't see the wake. With all of the beautiful scenes here, why would you bother setting up a fake?

Whats Old Milwaukee going for these days? Last time it was $9.99 + deposit.

I just got back to Calumet, from Green Bay.
My wife and I went to see Fleetwood Mac in concert at the Resche center. What an awesome
performance. They have still got it, after all these years.

Hey Yooperland, Saturday May 15th is Norma (Vuolle) Aittama's 80th birthday, for those of you who know her and those that don't, get your well wishes in, after all finnish pasties and basically all bakegood products come from the Vuolle/Aittama Kitchen! Aunt your the BEST! live it up! Happy 80th!

Jim & Pam:
You were correct the first time... It is a sunset. The photographer is standing towards the tip of the breakwall for the upper harbor... must be pretty close to the light beacon at the tip. Walking back to Presque Isle over those slippery, rough boulders in the dark must have been a bit treacherous!

1200 mile round trip to the UP
15 Miles Per Gallon on the Van
80 gallons of total fuel used.
Added increase of 60 cents per gallon from last summer
Increase of $48 in fuel costs
Vacation in the Keweenaw………Priceless….
Heck Yeah See You In 4 weeks……………

The shoreline from downtown Marquette to the north harbor where the freighter photograph posted on April 14 was taken runs roughly north-south so the moonrise is in the east as it should be (not the north as someone commented.) The sun angle is very low so the water is not illuminated and the sky looks a bit hazy, but the last rays of the sun catch the side of the boat. The photo is real/undoctored... Ya just gotta be in the right place at the right time... Great photo!

Gas is now $2.14.9 at the Citgo in Hancock.

Rice Lake Gary has it right. Hope to make the summer solstice celebration at Agate beach and fishing in fall. Gas prices could triple...I'll still enjoy the U.P. whenever possible.

CP, Commerce....Aunt is the best...How's unc doin..have you heard? And you are right...the best baking in the CC came out of those two kitchens I'm sure.

I just received an email from Thomas Heltunen with this message and picture, referencing a Shoebox Memory photo back on 04/04/04

"I was going through some of the photos and came upon the one of Rick Laplander, Rick was an old friend and fellow ham. In fact I bought his tower and one of his radios. Here is a later photo of Rick at his station. Tom"

Does anyone remember carnivals in Atlantic Mine or South Range? Who sponsored them? Any Photos?

$2.48 a gallon for full service regular at the Carriage Hills Marathon station in East Lansing at the corner of Lake Lansing and Hagadorn roads yesterday!!! Minus a 10% discount for senior citizens! Holy Wah! Check out the story in the John Schneider column in 5-13 Lansing State Journal. www.LSJ.com

Rock and roll in Calumet, was Christine McVie on tour
with Fleetwood Mac? Who was in the band? Didn't
know they were on tour again!

Linda Rondstedt (sp?) and the Stone Pony played Tech Winter Carnival 68 just after they had hit it big, but were still locked into the gig. My girlfriend at the time (a current professor at Finlandia) and I picked up Linda and the band in a borrowed Chevy at CMX. When we hit the overview where you can see Houghton/Hancock and the canal, she expressed dismay and suprise at the geographical mess she had apparently gotten herself into. It was the first time I ever heard a "lady" use the "*" word. Her loss. not ours
I had way too much fun at Da Tech..........

there is where it is.

To Steve the flying troll. Is CMX still in operation? Haven't been there in years!

Interesting story about the Ronstadt concert--and I'm not surprised. Back in '68 when I was a junior at Houghton High School, I was one of the people who attended that Linda Ronstadt concert. If I recall correctly, the audience was not at all thrilled with the performance or her attitude (she seemed "out of it"), and quite a few people walked out before it was over. Only one of 2 concerts I've ever attended through the years where that happened (the other one was Hank Williams Jr., but not in Mich.). I remember going to see Neil Diamond at da Tech back in the late 60's, and the concert was great. I also attended two John Denver concerts at Tech. At the first concert, he was a member of the Mitchell Trio (having just replaced Chad Mitchell), and a year or so later he returned as a solo artist. Both times were quite excellent. Somewhere in my stuff I still have all the posters. I also remember the Buckinghams, who played at Hancock High School auditorium--I think they were sponsored by Suomi College. My friend got to interview them for the high school paper and that was a big deal. Haven't thought of any of this in many years! As young people, we were pretty thrilled that these concerts actually came to the Copper Country.

to bthecute1: Yes CMX is there and operating fully.

trish,wa
Christine is not with the band anymore. The rest are still original members. Stevie still
looks great. Mick, Lindsey, and John have aged some.
The tour was called the" say you will" tour,
after there last album.

Thank you Maija for the information

Wernt the carnivals by SKERBECKS???