• Wednesday-What'sUP October 13 - 03:55 pm

When E. Neil Harri goes on a color tour here in the Keweenaw, he doesn't hop in his car...no, he hops in his plane and gets up there where the birds take in the sights. He's taking us along in the co-pilot seat, as we fly around Mount Bohemia and the Lac La Belle area. Quite a bit of color around that area, although it won't be around too much longer. It's good to have photos like these to come back to and enjoy beauty once again, after all the leaves have fallen. Thanks for the mini-tour, Neil!

LOVE "Looking Down the Channel". You get a glimpse of the lighthouse, Bete Grise, the big lake, the color, the whole enchilada!! Thanks, Neil, for this bird's eye view of one of my favorite places!!

Stunning photos today ... thanks, Neil!! How lucky you are to view the autumn colors by plane! :-)

A great way to see all the beautiful fall coloring! Nice pictures!

Just went by there on Monday on our way to LeBlanc John Deere place, in BootJack. You just have to love the pictures taken from the plane by Neil.

Thanks Neil...next best thing to being there.

The clean bite of the ax into wood, the whine of the chainsaw, the smell of wood chips, the fresh soreness of muscles, the pride of seeing one's woodpile straight and tall....AUTUMN

I flew Gogebic county yesterday. The leaves in the hardwoods are almost 100% down. The aspen still have a few.

Neil, WOW! These pics are awesome. Will be sending them to different places around the country. Thank you for this unique perspective of these beautiful areas!

Fantastic pics as usual Neil, do you have one of the mouth of the montreal river?

We were up here this weekend and all the way out to high rock bay what a view.

I put the wrong links up the other day, here are the correct links to some shots from the ground view of some of these spots.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2228031974186.2113486.1049422916&l=55bc13a351&type=1

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2225393788233.2113355.1049422916&l=501c83895d&type=1

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2221638254347.2113243.1049422916&l=5ed30b4986&type=1

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2218214408753.2113135.1049422916&l=59e4197556&type=1

Love it when Neil takes these photos!! Thx Neil.

Fantastic photos, as always! I love being able to look down into the water and see the bottom profiles that are revealed from the air.Thanks Neil!

And Mt. Houghton, as seen best in pic one. The view
from up there is one of my Keweenaw favorites.

WOW!

It's hard when my heart lives 800 miles from my body, but you help to ease the pain with shots like this, Neil. Thanks!

Jim...In early September I was going to hike up Mt. Houghton. Someone with a bulldozer has pushed stumps into the two tracker-pathway up. The stumps and debris run about a third of the way up. The ambitious could still walk around this mess through the woods on either side. Looks like it was intentionally closed off. What a shame as this was one of my favorite spots in the Keweenaw!

Neil, these are absolutely breathe taking pictures!! Awesome, awesome!! Thank you!!

Repeating what the others are saying....thank you, Neil!

Bob Gilreath (Bobg252):

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"… here are the correct links to some shots from the ground view of some of these spots.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2228031974186.2113486.1049422916&l=55bc13a351&type=1

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2225393788233.2113355.1049422916&l=501c83895d&type=1

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2221638254347.2113243.1049422916&l=5ed30b4986&type=1

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2218214408753.2113135.1049422916&l=59e4197556&type=1"

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Thank you 4 more Autumn pictures.

Bob (or others)
Do you mean the last half mile (going east up from
the larger road) or lower down? There was a gate on
the last section a year or so ago when I was up
there last. I believe the gate was installed by a
local trail group(?). The small trail up *was*
getting chewed up by atv's in places. Last I heard
that land was private but was CFA. Anybody heard of
any recent (last couple of years)
developments/change of ownership, etc?

Sad to see the scars on the mountain. :-(

Mt Houghton was purchased a couple of years ago. I am sure the blocked road is to stop 4 wheelers. CFA access does not mean you have to give road or motorized access.
It was some conservation group who bought it. I forgot which one.
Also, I am glad people are enjoying the autumn photos. Thats why I take them and Mary posts them.

Thank you Neil for the interesting views of Lac La Bell. Now you've given a perspective of where I stayed at the cabin there. Never had any idea where I was each time I explored the area or went to the small towns around there. Now I'll enjoy there when I go back.As I love maps I've tried many times to get one like we have around here for our county. But must not have any avaliable there which shows the smaller lakes and bays etc.And thanks again for your views of that great area.

Jim...I meant the two track you walk up that had the gate that was put in a few years ago. The stumps are covering the trail from the bottom up well beyond the gate. After considerable climbing through the woods, you can cut back over to the trail.

You can still drive both roads up from the Mandan-Copper Harbor Road.

Well FRNash I'm nowhere near a rocket scientist and don't say so. I'm pretty good in English, literture, history but mostly the school of hard knocks. You'd probably freak out how electronically ignorant I am. But I'm pleasantly ignorant so it doesn't bother me. I'm like Eric states, my heart is on the shore and in the woods of the UP.

Well FRNash I'm nowhere near a rocket scientist and don't say so. I'm pretty good in English, literture, history but mostly the school of hard knocks. You'd probably freak out how electronically ignorant I am. But I'm pleasantly ignorant so it doesn't bother me. I'm like Eric states, my heart is on the shore and in the woods of the UP.

OPPS!!! See!!!

FRNash I'll make sure i run my posts by you from now on to make sure I'm not dumbing them down.

always wanted to try skiing there. While I still can! I have read that there some steep runs! Black diamonds! YIKES! But perhaps just a fall color chair lift ride?

LOL Bob!!

I was gonna post some links so people could see my pix too, but after that post by FRNash, I think I won't, lol!!

Deb ;-) yea its not rocket science to copy and paste a URL into your browser ;-)

Honestly I had no problem with someone helping us to learn something, but the rocket science remark even with the smiley was insulting to everyone.

kay Moore (Mskatie), Bob Gilreath (Bobg252) & Deb S. (Usedtobeayooper):

Geez, apparently y'all completely misunderstood my "rocket science" remark. Let me 'splain:

"This is not rocket science!". Translation: "I have every confidence that each and every PastyCam member can do this in their sleep, by just following the example above!" Mostly all that's needed is the courage to try.

No, seriously! So where's the insult in that? Most folks probably haven't even seen the "Formatting your posts" link in my post above.

To paraphrase the old (original) "Star Trek" mission statement:

FRNash, I for one had no trouble at all using Bob G's links, and I loved his pages, that I would not have been able to see otherwise!

I should add to my comment above, though, that it will not work from the email: you have to do it from the web page for pasty.com. It took me a little while, a few years ago, to figure that tip out.

Bob: Your autumn photos are absolutely amazing, spectacular, stunning! Thank you so much for sharing them with us!! It was wonderful to be back in the UP, while viewing your photos! ;-)

Frnash: Your profile doesn't say it, but I'm betting that you were a teacher at some point. Thanks for the lesson in making clickable links! I didn't take offense at the "rocket science" remark ... I took it as encouragement to go ahead and try this! I do know how to copy and paste a URL address into a new window and view it that way ... but it's so much easier for me just to click on a link! :-)

Deb: I would love to see your autumn pics either way! ;-)

Diana P. (Diana):

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"… Frnash: Your profile doesn't say it, but I'm betting that you were a teacher at some point. Thanks for the lesson in making clickable links! I didn't take offense at the "rocket science" remark ... I took it as encouragement to go ahead and try this new thing!"

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Wasn't trying to be insulting FRNash, just didn't want to do it wrong, lol!! Computers aren't my thing, but I can copy and paste. Lots of stuff I don't know how to do and don't have time to learn. I just want to enjoy seeing the pictures and reading what everybody has to say about them. Some day, when I'm retired, I'll work on this other stuff.

FRNash: You wrote "... I have also authored and edited several mainframe computer user manuals ..."

... that qualifies as a type of teacher in my book! I remember how challenging it was to locate children's library books on introductory programming for my young son in the early 90's ... and he did learn to program by reading them!

This color stuff is fun, but does take some time. Where do I find Formatting your posts? I have searched this website, to no avail, and I don't want to have to keep coming back to October 12, to click on your link here! Thank you!

Hope all goes well with your hip replacement this week, that it's totally successful, and that your recuperation doesn't take too long! Those Biomedical Engineers can design amazing things, can't they? :-)

Diana P. (Diana):

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This color stuff is fun, but does
take some time. Where do I find Formatting your posts? I have
searched this website, to no avail, and I don't want to have to
keep coming back to October 12, to click on your link here!

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Diana P. (Diana):

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"Hope all goes well with your hip replacement this week…"

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FRNash:

I'll have to work on that bookmark idea ... already have a plethera of pages bookmarked, so it's difficult to find anything there. Maybe need Autumn cleaning!

Sounds like everything went according to plan yesterday with your surgery ... follow your doc's orders while you're recuperating and take good care! :-)