Heavy wet snow weighs down the pine branches today in the Keweenaw.  This is the way winter was meant to be...

(...just in time for winter's arrival next week)

Pasty Cam is almost blinded by the snow this morning in Hancock.  Between the wipers we catch a glimpse of the Kaleva Cafe and D&N Bank farther down on Quincy Street.

<==(that school bus is just about to pass Gemignani's Restaurant)

Barb Gariepy's first grade class provides the Christmas carols and laughter today for the folks at Still Waters in Calumet.  The Copper Country finally had some snow, though only a dusting.

(more is in the forecast)

Last year at this time the Douglass Houghton monument was severely cracking and losing some of its stones.  (Each county in the state of Michigan is represented by a native stone in the monument's base).  Then on the first day of Spring...

(Thank-you to all who helped with this project.  What should we do for the Keweenaw next year?)

Terrific winds throughout the day.  Trees down, waves up.  Weather system threatens to bring snow...

(...promises, promises)

Normally this newspaper tube is deep in a snowbank.  Normally this hockey player would have lots of ice to practice on... but not when it's 56° (at midday in mid-December in the Keweenaw).

(the last snowfall was almost a month ago)

(could you ever imagine a lighthouse in Mohawk??)