Donna MacIntosh was sprung from her “cell” recently, by her good friend Cindy (HI LOU!). They did a bit of touring with a drive through the Mount Calvary cemetery just outside of Lake Linden and oh boy, just look at the colors there. It’s perfect, since the deadline for removing and flowers or decorations was October 1st, so now nature does its thing and decorates with fall leaves to replace what folks took away for the coming winter months. Just such a perfect mix of trees line both sides of the cemetery, so there’s a variety of color, too. You can see in Donna’s bottom photo that the birch trees are losing their leaves already. I mentioned earlier on these pages the amount of winds we’ve been getting. It’s not conducive for fall to stick around when the wind is howling away. That’s one good thing about the Pasty Cam. Even if the leaves are dropping fast, we can enjoy the photos and make fall last that much longer.

Yooper Steve, from TourDaYoop is taking us to check out the beautiful colors in the Huron Mountains and you don’t have to do any hiking or mountain climbing to enjoy it today.

Thanks Mary! It is so wonderful to get out of this
cell too! HI ERIC!!

I wonder if Yooper Steve has ever gotten into the
Huron Mountain Club?? Has anyone that reads this
been in there?? I had a bud that was a State
Police Officer, and she rode up there in the "Blue
Goose"...and the guy at the opening told her she
wasn't allowed in there. She told him "Oh yes I
can...these cars go anywhere in Michigan"....he
ran into his little cabin, (after he let her in)
and made a few phone calls...there was not one
person to be seen...but she could see cigs being
smoked behind curtains, watching her....Another
fella I knew, was in a canoe near there. They had
him arrested for trespassing and he spent the
night behind bars. Makes ya wonder "What are they
hiding???"

Beautiful pictures, Donna! I
thought about going over there
last week, but never got there. So
thanks for taking these photos of
one of my favorite places to see
the fall colors. I'm glad you were
sprung, too.

Very nice set, Donna!
You go girl!

Donna,

Glad to see you getting out for some fun.
Here's a look a the developed area of the private Hurons.

I used to own a 40 next to Mt. Calvary. It's indeed beautiful in fall and I enjoyed walking through to the old railroad grade up the hill. Unfortunately there are plastic grave decorations scattered about along the road side and in the woods. Please people, plastics are everywhere in the environment. Don't add to the problem. Part of the fall cleanup was to pick up bags full out of the my ravine and take to recycling. Plant real flowers and maintain them. Your departed loved ones deserve it.

Thank you everyone....

Steve Pummill...you are so right...when I could
walk good...there WAS a ton of plastic junk thrown
down in the ravines...We even saw a couple of old
tombstones. I like your idea of real flowers...is
that allowed??

DA...way cool pics...have you been in there? Looks
like several working areas and perhaps a dining
hall? I've heard it's quite rich folks that live
in there. I wonder if anyone lives there year
round??

Steve and Donna, this year I
planted irises and hostas at the
cemetery in Houghton. And I
planted hostas in Lake Linden.
Don't know what I'll do next year.
I'll probably bring more irises to
Houghton cuz mine will spread.
They at least mow the lawn up
there. My dad's grand in Lake
Linden didn't get mowed unless we
did it. That's so uncalled for
since we paid for perpetual care.

I've never been Donna. I've never even tried to get close to where the security gates are located.

Those are screen shots from Google Earth. It appears that County Road KK is blacktop.

Huron Mountain Club Road Security Gate

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Speaking of public voting and input, a 10,000-acre portion of lands owned by The Nature Conservancy is planning to be acquired by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

They are looking for public input on how to manage what will soon be a 20,000 acre State Forest. There are also public meetings starting next week at the Grant Township Hall.

10,000 acres of Keweenaw Peninsula nature preserve to become part of state forest

They're ranked #5 right now.
Lutsen from MN is in there too. I
voted for Mount Bohemia.

Way cool...thank you for that info DA!

And thanks for posting the voting Mary!

And Deb, Cindy and I wondered about the Perpetual
Care too! Do they pay you back for stopping?? That
is so not good. I am impressed real plants are
allowed! And obviously, perpetual care won't bother
them! Call the Village and ask....

I've meant to stop in at the
village so often and keep
forgetting. That grave is horrible
all summer. It's very frustrating.

Deb...
You would have to stop at the Schoolcraft
Township building on Front street. The
village doesn't have anything to do with
the cemetery, as it's not in the village
limits.

Thanks, Mary. I actually knew that
but just mistyped.