Continuing the “still snowy” here UP North in the Spring theme, we have a photo from Donn de Yampert back in 2003. It’s a beauty for sure, with the tree frosted in the morning sunrise, but it sure doesn’t represent what most folks imagine when they think of Spring. This shot was taken near Trenary, home of Trenary Home Bakery, the makers of the deliciously, crunchy Trenary Toast!

We head to Keweenaw Bay for our next archive shot, snapped by Donna MacIntosh back in 2009. The ice in the Bay was already starting to recede that year. You can see it’s breaking up along the edges and no longer safe to go out on then.

In 2014, we end up on the Portage Canal, looking at the Quincy Smelter area in Ripley. Nathan Miller was out on the still frozen Canal with his aerial photography kite, getting an outstanding shot of the smelter campus and Mont Ripley in the background. It’s hard to tell if there are any skiers on the hill that day, but it looks snow-covered enough to still be flying down the slopes.

Our video is titled Upper Peninsula in Early Spring, 2017. It looks way less snowy than it is here in the Copper Country at present, but I’m hoping if we continue to view videos with barely any snow on the ground from other years, it might somehow push our weather in that direction now.

Snow again. It's not pretty anymore, lol!

Music clouds the intellect
but clarifies the heart.


.......Edward Abbey

That is a fantastic video. The drone pilot is quite skilled and has a good eye for photography. Plus it hit many of my favorite sites.

I remember the Freda stamp mill ruins before they were cleaned up. Back in the early 70's I took this picture for the MTU yearbook. Fraternities were always trying to out-do previous photo composures. This is Phi Kappa Theta posing on the Champion Mill ruins at Freda.

I second that, D.A....outstanding video. The first scene looked like one from the Planet of the Apes, the first movie. And it looks like you were hang'n with the hippies back then. :-)

"It's so quiet in the ruins walking though the old town
Stones crumbling under my feet I see smoke for miles around" (Cat Stevens)

Alex,

"Hang'n with"? Yea, that sound like a good response should my 30 year old son ever ask.

BTW, climbing around those ruins seemed extremely dangerous at the time, even to this 20 something that felt (like most at that age) a certain invincibility. I can understand why it was cleaned up.

Lyrics correction: walking "through" the old town