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Eight years ago, the Pasty Cam took a look east from the Portage Lake Lift Bridge. The photo shows just a touch of color. This year, in some spots of the Keweenaw, the changing of the trees is well underway. There are pockets along US-41 near Copper Harbor approaching 40 percent. Peak color is expected the first week of October, which isn't that far away.

Good morning everyone....time for my mid-week weekend! :)

Mornin'

Hello everyone from Ontonagon. Have a great day!

Morning everyone!

Good rainy morning. We need some sunshine!

Morning All from a wet and wonderful Sunrise Side!

No leave color change yet here in MN.

If you're looking for something to do this coming weekend, mark your calendar to attend the Houghton County Historical Society Open House on Saturday (Sept. 16th), from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday (Sept. 17th), from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Featuring - in the Heritage Center - Fall Harvest Farmer's Market, with venders selling fruits, vegetables, plants, perserves, bakery and other delights!

There will be a presentation on Saturday, at 11 a.m., by Pete Nisula from Nissula Nursery. Then at 12:30 p.m. and again at 2:00 p.m., Mike Shira, from the MSU Extension will talk about Historical Home Gardening with a repeat of his presentation on Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

Ride the Steam Train for $3.00 and make that visit you've always been meaning to make to the museum, where Admission will be FREE for both days!

A raffle is also being held, with tickets being sold until Sunday at 2:00 p.m.:
Top prize being a Lionel Copper Range Mine Train (which is a limited edition).
Second prize is a Lionel Christmas Train.
Third prize is a Fall Color Boat Tour aboard Le Voyageur.

For more information, please contact Vada at 906-296-8232.

Leaves are making a start in turning colors here. Gas is $2.30 here in C.R. IA.

Good morning everyone :) No color change with the trees here on the southern shores of Lake Michigan yet. But I imagine that they will be changing colors soon enough, with the cool crisp nights, and all this rain. We're entering day number 4 of dismal rain. Has anyone seen the sun lately?
Susan, hope you enjoy your midweek, weekend :) I used to love having my weekend in the middle of the week. Now I just have it all week long ;)
Janie, Gas here in Indiana is $2.56 per gallon. I was tickled yesterday, to be able to fill up my truck (3/4 of a tank) for less than $50.

Good Morning Leaf Peepers!!!
Yes we have that dismal rain here too. I have a hibiscus bush with one HUGE bud. The rain is not helping it open. Hope the Sun shines soon.
Gas here is $2.49 this am. need a fill up. Should I wait??? I have a slug bug named Snowball...Heehee. Everyone have a good day and enjoy Beautiful Mother Nature!!!!

Obviously, no leaves turning in Houston yet!! We're just happy when the temp falls below 70 at night now. I've seen gas here as low as $2.14 but is averaging around $2.25 or so. If you have one of the new cars that can burn E85 like I do, I filled up last Friday for $1.99 but I see that's down now to $1.86.

There is a great website out there called GasBuddy.com that will give you the lowest price for gas in your area. It even covers the Keweenaw; how great is that?? I have the address listed below for your viewing pleasure.......

http://www.gasbuddy.com/

At the risk of sounding like Pollyanna, I enjoy even these "dismal", rainy days! John Dee apparently feels the same way as evidenced by his latest journal posting. It's all part of fall, my favorite time of year!

It sure would be nice to have more thorough gas price reporting for the UP!

Clearly the key to the GasBuddy site is for more folks to register as members, and for them to provide more and frequent input. Note that the gas prices posted on GasBuddy expire 24 hours after they're posted. Even if the price at your local station hasn't changed, if someone fails to report it anew, it will vanish 24 hours after it was last reported!

A quick snapshot of GasBuddy on or about 1:00PM EDT today shows the following meager results for the UP:

Frnash, you can't be wrong. No Westland in Dickinson County that I know of and I was raised there! With 24 reports at that - must now be a megolopolis!

I am on the road and have been for some time. Gas prices around Chicago seem to remain the highest. $2.13 in Indy yesterday. Hi to all my PR buddies and hope to be home for awhile by October. Better get moving again. Paris, (Illinois that is) next stop.

Well, you didn't really expect EVERY gas station in the UP to be listed, now did you?? Besides, it's better than nothing!! :P

Oh and btw, there are 4 listings for Keweenaw Co. listed in the "highest" prices category; big surprise there.....

Capt. Paul (Eclogite):
"...you didn't really expect EVERY gas station in the UP to be listed, now did you?"
Although that would be nice, it's also not likely to happen! - I was, however, hoping to promote a bit more active participation among the UP residents. I'd help but it's a bit hard to do from Phoenix (AZ, not MI :-))!

"...there are 4 listings for Keweenaw Co. listed in the "highest" prices category..."
So there are... but 'tis strange how there were no reports from Keweenaw at all in the county-by county-listing, also no listing for Copper Harbor by ZIP Code (49918)!?

Lol FRNash, what, your not going to be Gasbuddy's Keweenaw correspondant? ;-)

I think it's odd as well that prices appear in one section but not another. When I first looked at Keweenaw Co. this morning I saw Port Huron listed and had to laugh....

two fish are swimming along and run into a concrete wall. one turns to the other and says "dam"

Paul, Liked your dam joke. Other Paul, liked your first post thanks, showed all the gas stations in Berkley.

Re: Gasbuddy. The reason there are no listings for Keweenaw county is that they have no Keweenaw County towns on their location list on MichiganGasPrices.com. That doesn't mean that people don't report them, though, you just have to know what town to query for. I have emailed the Gasbuddy admins to have some more UP locations added to the MichiganGasPrices.com site.

Re: Gasbuddy - I have also emailed GasBuddy with the following suggestion:

Given Michigan's distinctive geography, and the lack of really significant "metro areas" in the Upper Peninsula, it certainly would be handy to have "Upper Peninsula" itself as a distinctive entry among the "City / State / Province / County / Parish / Borough" entries for Michigan, and as an entry in the drop-down dialog box for searches by "Area" for Michigan.

Yesterday when I was in Gwinn it was $2.68. They are always higher than Marquette by about 4 cents. They really goudges us in this area. Gas prices the other day in Baraga were $2.41.

wow, we're really doin good down here, then: 2.34. Never in recent history been lower than Baraga!

How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb?

Sorry, but the light bulb will change itself when it is ready.

On my way home from work this afternoon I noticed gas was now at $2.25 here in Cedar Rapids, IA.. Went down a nickel while I was at work, yahoooo!

Rowdy! Elmer Gent Tree, eh? Great play on words there. I love it!!!!

Paul, Loved the dam joke.