Just as we are about to say goodbye to another winter, we take another lap around Northern Michigan to celebrate snow and ice. So many Pasty Cam contributors over the years have scratched our itch to get out and walk in it, like Jeff Kalember in 2009, Kelly Wenberg in 2002, and Barb Bouwkamp in 2015, all appearing on April 2. The Pure Michigan video features several other landmarks near our home, the Keweenaw, such as Mount Bohemia and the Porkies.

Edie loved the snow. She loved to scoop it, snowshoe and ski in it, and just be out in the woods when it was covered in white. Tomorrow (4/3) would have been Edie's 64th birthday, the first I will miss celebrating with her. I'm so thankful for 28 winters we had living in Eagle River, seeing the big beautiful Lake every morning, and watching the seasons change together. Later this month as we think about the Resurrection and new life, it has added meaning for me this year.

Thanks for stopping by Pasty Central! We're all about Upper Michigan, and glad you share our appreciation of its beauty and excitement.

Have a good week :o)

P.S. I just looked at a few webcams around the area (being out of it myself at the moment) and saw a lovely live scene over at Sunset Bay Campground. Pure Upper Michigan!

Great pix and video, as usual...love it.

"April come she will
When streams are ripe and swelled with rain"
(SIMON & GARFUNKEL)

Love the video and I really like the spring thaw
picture.

"Whanne that Aprille with its shoures shotes,
The drought of March has perced to the route..."

I'm hoping someone may have some knowledge my ancestors in Calumet. My grandmother was Ida Maude Simons; she was born in the lower peninsula (Bay City) but grew up in Osceola Township. I think she graduated from Calumet H.S. in 1904; her father, Thomas Jefferson Simons, died sometime before 1892, and her mother, Lydia Simons (nee Shelton), married a man named Colin McDonald that year (they show up on the 1900 U.S. Census in Osceola Township as a married couple). We don't know where Thomas Simons died or was buried; Lydia was buried in Calumet's Lakeview Cemetery as "Lydia S. McDonald" on her death in 1924; she's buried with a grandson and his wife--not with either husband Simons or McDonald, which is curious. If anyone visits Lakeview Cemetery periodically, could you take a look and see if the above is correct? (The grandson next to her stone is Leslie Dick, and his wife May). My grandmother Ida taught school in various places around the U.P., including Amasa, Sidnaw, and perhaps Calumet itself in the first decade of the 20th century. She married Chistopher Rowe, a bookkeeper for the Verona Mine in Amasa in 1915, later separated and lived in Crystal Falls for most of the rest of her life (my mother, Eunice Rowe, graduated from Crystal Falls H.S. in 1933). Christopher Rowe later worked for Henry Ford's operation in L'Anse for a while (early 1920s)and later moved to Highland Park, IL to live with an older daughter. I'm really interested to know what happened to both T.J. Simons and Colin McDonald; they (and Lydia) were all from Bruce County, Ontario, originally (the Kinloss/Kincardine area); from what I've read, there were a number of immigrants from this county to the Copper Country in the boom years. I'll look forward to hearing from anyone with information. Thanks! My email address is jiggs1000@hotmail.com.

Lots of Winter fun in the U.P.

Love the video..."Texan by birth, Yooper by
choice"....