• Saturday-What'sUP July 7 - 08:25 am

If you've been out and about at all in the Copper Country, you know that flowers of all colors, shapes and sizes are out in full bloom right now. Some wild, some planted, but all quite beautifully decorating our surroundings. We have a sampling of some here today...starting with one from Mike Schneider, that I don't ever recall having seen before. It's called a Starflower and is also known as an Indian Potato. The latter name probably comes about because the small tuberous root of this pretty flower is edible. Interesting, to say the least.

The next trio of flower photos were snapped by Liz Siivola, while biking the trails through the woods. Nice, peaceful setting to get on your mountain bike and enjoy the scenery such as these flowers, along the way.

Thanks to both Mike and Liz, for sharing nature's highlights.

Good evening to all. A very difficult day in the Keweenaw, with power outages cropping up throughout the Peninsula. We finally had services restored a short time ago, in time to keep our 15 year record intact, never missing a daily picture update.

No towers to climb, but a hard time holding our broadband network together. Thanks for the patience and help from all of our Pasty.NET members who help keep it going.

And thanks to all the photographers over the years who have helped keep the Pasty Cam going :o)

Hey Charlie, Thanks for your hard work to keep that record!! Was a
close call, huh? I was confident you'd make it. Love the photos!!

Beautiful!

I repeat what Sally said. Thank you so much for everything you do to keep this site up and running! I'd really miss it :-)

Note that the Starflower is one of the very few flowers with seven petals.

Beautiful flowers. I've never seen a starflower before.