With the cooler morning and evening temperatures, our thoughts begin to turn more to fall and colorful leaves. We tend to forget that there are still a few berries out there just ripening before our eyes! Thanks to Brita Haapala (the first shot) and Tina Hyrkas (the second and third shots), we get an up-close view of the end of the growing season here in the Keweenaw. From what I hear, the blackberries are still ripening and it looks like this dragon fly (correct me if I'm wrong), is just sitting there waiting for a taste of the fruit. I bet if you do a bit of searching, you'll still find some blueberries just begging to be picked. Which leaves the last photo...I know the thimbleberries are past their prime, but I just couldn't resist throwing in that last burst of bright red summer fruit! :->

Good Morning. Wouldn't those berries be nice on cereal right now?

Nah, turn 'em into jelly to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch like I'm doing right now.

Greetings from Stuttgart, Germany

Either that or with a bit of cream over the top of them.....YUM! Mornin' all!

It is a Dragonfly. My grandma called them "darning needles". I recall being very afraid of them because they looked so scary. Now I realize they are beneficial (they eat mosquitos) and beautiful.

Nice photos...all 3 have something in them besides berries. Look close............

Leaves?

Blueberry pancakes would taste good right about now. Have a great weekend everyone!

BROWN SPOTS ON THE LEAFS?

The first photo it very obvious, but the other two... Look close and you will see ..

Johnny JJH

Only 38° in my part of Houghton County right now. There is a nip of fall in the air for sure. Time to check my big green tomatoes. Just crossing my fingers they don't get nipped by frost this year.

The second photo, look for eyes and nose.
The third, you can see the whole body.


Without God we are ''one nation under''

Lovely sunny pictures. They'd be a treasure to see on one of the cold, gray winter days; as would one of the beautiful snow pictures be great on one of these hot humid days. We're predicted to get into the 80's again this coming week in troll land.

Mornin', going to be sunny all day out here.

Hey, I found it.
The PastyCam logo!

There are few things more beautiful than wild
berries. My dad picked 145 quarts in August
and September. I just had blueberry
pancakes made with wild UP berries for
breakfast this morning. The pictures made
me homesick. Surprise. But then, so did
yesterday's freighter.

One of my favorite memories is picking wild huckleberries in the woods near my grandfather's house in Mio. It's actually one of the reasons we're moving to Michigan soon. There's nothing wild left here in Jersey!

To eagle eye/IND,
I an glad to hear you found the PastyCam logo!! Congrats!! Way to go!!!!

Good morning everybody! My mother used to tell us that a dragonfly was a sewing needle and it would sew our mouths shut if we swore. I believed her for a long time.....until I tested it one day :)

Good morning from Mishawaka IN. Chilly here this morning. Yummmm! Blackberries. Have a good day everyone.

Those berries look really good.

I check this site every morning, but it's my first time posting. I graduated from Tech in May 2004 and am now doing engineering work down here in Novi. I miss it up there and it still feels like I should be going back any day now (even though classes started a few weeks ago already.) I can't wait until I get to go up there in February.

The sewing needle myth must have been used by quite a few CC mothers. I was told it would sew my mouth shut if I swore, too. Nice photos. Might have to make a quick trip north to check out berries that are left.

morning all. What, did all CC mothers get together and conspire to tell us that myth? I was told the same thing. When we went outside to play, we would all cover our mouths whenever a dragonfly came around. lol lol

They look soooo good. I've been thinking about wild UP berries, all summer. Now I really feel deprived. Well, maybe next year....

To Erin, Novi~

You wouldn't happen to have Winter Carnival on the brain already would you?!? ;)

So Chuck, how about it? Did you find another ATV? How's the weather in Little Betsy today? When are you two coming back south?

Snow in the mountains of northern California as you read this.

It's not just CC moms. Mine is from Ironwood, and she told me the same story about darning needles.

I know this is changing the subject but when I was a child, we used to love to catch fire flies. I never see them anymore. What's up with that? Anyone have an answer as to why they are not as abundant as 30 years ago?

Berries alone, on cereal or ice cream, my mouth is watering this morning. How I wish I were in UP for some great berries

Good morning...from wet Ohio...getting rain from Ivan...last week we got the rain from Frances! But, that is nothing compared to those poor people down south! We need to keep them all in our prayers as the hurricane season is still another 10 weeks long!! And there are two more waiting in the wings...all of us who have relatives and friends will be thinking of them and how they have survived the horrible destruction that those hurricanes can do.
Love the pictures of the berries...our season is over here, so appreciate them. We do not have thimbleberries in Ohio and can't even buy the jam or jelly! And it is sooooooo good!

Happy Birthday Alanna at MTU! Dad

Son of a Yooper, what brings you to Stuttgart?
My husband left there this morning. As soon as he gets in, we're leaving for Mackinaw for a weekend bike tour (as in bicycle, not motorcycle).
I hope he's getting some sleep on that plane.

At least I can see the UP from there. ;-)

Photographers, correct me if I am wrong, but I see a hampsters face in photo # 2 and a what looks to be a gerbil in photo # 3. Is it trick photography or do I need sleep??

JJJS---you must be delusional; I don't see anything in the
pics except berries, leaves touched by the fall, and the one
dragonfly. Some more hints, please.

Good morning all. I've spent several days picking blueberries up on the south shore of the Keewenaw. It's just another great feature the U.P. has to offer. Have a great weekend all. I think next weekend we'll be bringing the family up to scout some waterfalls, visit the big spring and enjoy the colors.

The berries look oh so good! My aunt who lives in the UP just told me there are still blueberries to be found. Sure wish I were there to get some. The blueberries that I have to buy in the store have no flavor and always remember the good ones I use to pick as a child. Oh to be back in the UP.

A hamster and gerbil? No.
Berries.

In the last photo, look above the ripe thimbleberry. It is a white gerbil with brown spots.

Dragonflies hold their wings horizontally; damselflies hold their wings vertically over their bodies.

Back in the 70s I used to search for berries behind Vollworth’s. It ended up being a dead end.

Don't worry George, it's nothing to lose your head over. There's plenty of berries out there to be found.

Yeah I should give it another try, I’m getting so old I just need someone to give me a hand.

I'd give you the shirt off my back if it would do any good. Hang in there Buddy.

I found a great spot north of me to get blueberries. Mmmmm! :)

George, you should team up with Betsy and get those blueberries. Maybe she can pick you up.

Hi i just wanted to say that my dogs are missing. one is a bluetick with no collar and the other is a Beagle with a red collar. If anybody has information please post it. Thanks Jessie and Joshua

Yummy! Yummy! I used to pick berries all the time when I was a kid. I think I ate more than I kept! :)

Hope everyone has a very nice day and great weekend!

Mike you could go pick some berries for George,since you'll be up there soon. While your at it pick some for me.

Could be a baseball hat too. The bill is going off to the left.

You got it Joanne. I'm going to be a berry picking machine in about a week. Look out berries, here I come.

Jessie and Joshua Mohawk, MI :
Have you called the Animal Shelter to see if your dogs were picked up anywhere?
Good luck and we'll keep an eye open.

Fireflies? I did see them one night in August at Bete Grise. I was looking for northern lights--and instead I saw these quick blinking flashes. I thought something was wrong with my eyes! I have no idea why fireflies are less abundant these days. However, the berries were abundant this summer. Yeah!

Jessie, have you tried Keweenaw County Sherrif's Dept.?

Good morning from OR. My folks just flew back to Tucson AZ with 8 bottles of Oregon thimbleberry jam. Plenty of the berries out here and not many pickers. Also dittos on the sewing needle story.

Good morning everyone! Happy Friday!

I live in central Indiana and we have a bumper crop of fire flies. In the evening I can sit in my back yard and look up into the trees and it looks like twinkle Christmas lights. It is beautiful

Yooper in Westland,

Actually I'm going up the weekend after Carnival this year. My dad and brother always came to visit me at school that week and are going up again this year so I thought I'd go up with them. It would be awesome to be there for Carnival too but I don't have that much vacation yet :)

Here's my most vivid memory of blueberry picking in the Keweenaw:
I once took my wife and 4 kids on a blueberry picking expedition, driving into the woods a short way along a logging road in our new Ford station wagon. After an hour, we stopped at the car to get some water, and my wife locked the keys inside, with all of us on the outside!
This was in the days long before cell phones, and we were a mile off the road in real widerness. Finally had to resort to a big rock against the smallest window. Expensive blueberries that day!

Well another beautiful day in the CC, little cold this morning for dad, so I did build that fire in the stove. Had a great trip around the point yesterday, a great pizza at Jim's in Calumet. We did go to Baraga as well, and we both took em for a few Ben F., and we've also had a great white fish dinner at the Lac La Belle resort the other night (highly recommend it). Sarah, I have found two new quads, one 2x2, and one 4x4 Honda's at Keweenaw Motor Sports, but I didn't win quite enough in Baraga to bring one back to the cottage yet, still tryin. Well, we gotta jump in the van and start cruzin again, if I can wake up grampa. Today's journey will take us to the Jam Pot if they're open, and who knows where else, we're havin a blast, how can you not up here, we are leaving tomorrow, gambling are way back, we will be back in Motown on Sunday, unless we strike it rich or get arrested. Still jealous? Come on U.P.

ok hey hey you got me . Whats kuutso ?

no trivia question today Mike?
something to make John Jacob think

For all you color watchers, my sisters and I are venturing out on our annual Keweenaw Tour tomorrow. We do whatever anyone wants: no excuses, no "we'll do it next time" and it takes all day. We are starting our day at the "Natural Wall" in Traprock Valley. (reference pasty.com 5/15/02 and 8/5/03) Its on private property so we had to get permission. I'll let you know how the colors are. Have a great day!

Do the monks give tours of the monastery?

nice photos today- we have all three of these berries
growing in the PacNW, too. We call the blueberries
'huckleberries', though- a smaller, wild variety.
Funny, we grew up with the fear of the dragonflies
sewing our lips together, too... and when we played
with grasshoppers, we noticed they 'spit tobacco'.

HI- New here to this site. a friend recommended it to me to post my home for sale...does anyone here know if anyone has had any luck thru this site with real estate? Thanks for any help!

Yes, advertising at Pasty Central brings results. The commercial sponsors listed on our home page receive thousands of 'click throughs' every month from our daily visitors, and we have a page for Real Estate listings which has been helpful to a number of folks with property for sale or rent.

Was out in the Traverse area picking blue berries one time. Picking wild berries causes you to focus on the task at hand and not notice what's going on around you. Well,I happened to look around and here was this bear in the same patch and he had noticed me!!! Quickly I looked around and saw a big pine that I ran like the wind for. The lowest branch,however, was at least 10'(feet) off the ground. I leaped for it and missed!!!!

But I caught it on the way down.

Believe it or not but here in Fashionable Ferndale we have spotted fire flies in our back and front yard. Not a "bumper crop" but more than a few to notice. Another first, we've lived here for 26 years and this is the first time we are experiencing skunks no less! I feel like I'm back living on our farm up in the ole U.P.! Dreaming of course!

Hyvää päivää (hello/good day)

Anteeksi (Excuse me),

The Vaimo (wife)she gone this viikko (week), she back now...so now she make me Lounas (lunch).

I better get olut(beer)off the back porch!

Näkemiin, (see you later/goodbye)

The bridge and airport cam seem to be stuck on
9-15-04...

Are there any jobs where your house is? Where is your house? Is high speed internet available there? Is it on a lake or a river? Want to go Land Contract?

The animal alliance doesn't open till 4:00 and the sherrifs hadn't heard anything yet but I want to thank you for trying to help us out. thanks again Jessie and Joshua

Oh those berries look so good! I remember my dad and I spent half a day picking wild blueberries somewhere near Gay. We took them back to Grandma's house in Mohawk, and dad got ambitious and made two of the most beautiful blueberry pies you could ever hope to see. There was one SLIGHT problem though! He wasn't wearing his glasses and put cups of SALT in them, instead of SUGAR. I believe about 13 words, never before heard by humans, were created that day!!!!!

Joanne White, We have a Finnish TV show on WLUC TV out of Marquette on Sunday mornings. The show is called Finland Calling or in Finnish Suomi Kuutso. So i guess (kuutso) must mean calling. Carl Pellonpa does o very good job of hosting the show and allways finishes with a (Hey Hey.

Just a quick reminder...and Mary and Charlie will Chime in.

The site has a specific intent to keep sales and advertising out of the "free-web" design.

So please refrain from posting items for sale, advertising items for sale, advertising business etc.

It's not that we don't like you AJ, its just that the site is not licensed or intended as a sales site. Real Estate web pages etc would be your best option.

We went through this a few months ago when someone asked about advertising pictures for sale.

Thanks All for keeping this sales and advetising free.

Editor's note: Thanks for jumping in and clarifying! Anyone interested in listing real estate for sale, can do so here: Real Estate and Seasonal Rentals. :->

Yes, the monks will let you see the monastery if they aren't in prayer. Just ask! We saw it when we were there in June.

No problem..I understand. Actually, I was just trying to ask about how real estate goes on here...not going to give details,or pitch a sale, but then someone asked..sorry!

Editor's note: Apology accepted AJ! :-> Your earlier posts with the info were removed, but you're welcome to advertise real estate for sale right here: Pasty.com Real Estate and Seasonal Rentals

I used to go berry picking with my short overweight neighbor. The last time we were out picking blueberries we came upon a nice patch & started picking. Unfortunately someone was in the patch with us, he stood up and we could see he wore a heavy black coat. My partner shouted a bear a bear and we started to run. The bear started after us, I was taller & longer legged than he was so I passed him up & never stopped til I got to my car. Needless to say, poor guy I never saw him again.

Hey, F'Cubed, Kiittos!

TO GEORGE WILLIAMS OF HANCOCK, MI- IF YOU ARE GEORGE, THEN I MUST BE ALFRED OR HENRY...NO PUN INTENDED. NO WONDER THOSE HOT DOGS SEEM TO GET ONLY BETTER WITH AGE AS THEY ARE HOMEGROWN, RIGHT IN THEIR BACK YARD.

Thanks to all the viewers. I'm new to the pasty cam, but I've been having great fun with the albums. It's a great coincidence that my pictures were chosen with Brita's because she is the one who introduced me to the pasty albums in the first place (thanks brita). Also in abundance this year were cherries...I made a dozen jars of cherry jam for the first time. Passed a few out to friends and stored the rest away for a while.

Finnished Rooms? Only certain folks gonna be interested in that house anyhow.

I need my spellcheck there, huh?!

Speaking of spell check,can it be applied to the messages we put here? I don't know how to do it.

Hei, Hey hey.
Kutsuu means "calls" or "invites" in Finnish.
Also on yesterday's discussion about "hey" or "eh", a student at Tech a bit ago did a little study and learned that while older generations of upper Peninsulainens say "eh", younger ones say "eh". To confuse this to the mix, people in Finland will say "Hei" as an informal greeting and "Hei Hei" as a goodbye. Just a few random facts.

Hilary

shoot! I meant to say that younger people say "hey". Maybe I should put my glasses on!

Hello All,

Quick question: will any local football games be streamed out on the internet tonight? If so, which station and what is their web site?

Thanks.

Guess that is two questions...

Local high school sporting events are streamed live at Pasty.NET, and you can see this season's football schedule at K-Bear 102

It is so neat how Tina and I are on the same day. This is a really good year for blackberries, still plenty in my backyard patch. Picking is very relaxing in this clear September weather.

Is "No Sales on P-Cam" an official with the site. It doesn't sound like it, but it does look to be someone who just can't help 'butting in'.

If I'm wrong, I apologize, but even the relative gentle tone of the message was off base.

Hey Mike are you going to dig I mean look George upwhen you get in town.?

Berries remind me of my grandmother putting on a wide brim hat with a net duct taped to her neck, long sleeve shirt she got from Grandpa. Thick pants, socks and work boots. Everything covered except her hands. Thoroughly drenched in Avon skin so soft. All this to keep the bugs off while berry picking. She looked like something right off of Red Green with all that duct tape.
She did make the Best jam ever!

probably shouldn't be posting web site addresses on here either.

Hey Hey
Now I gotyou. Kutsumus is calling. I still have never heard any one finish with hey hey. My Grandmother some times would end a statement with yo yo.

GREAT NEWS THE DOGS OF MOHAWK HAVE BEEN FOUND AND ARE BACK IN THEIR PEN. THANKS TO ALL WHO WERE HELPING AND KEEPING THEIR EYES AND EARS OPEN FOR US. JESSIE AND JOSHUA

We have had a lot of fire flies here in lower Michigan. Pretty, little, twinkly things they are!

P.S. To John Jacob Jingleheimer, You might need sleep or new glasses or an adjustment of your monitor... Or maybe I do, because I do NOT see a hamster or a gerbil. If that is a gerbil you saw, the white with brown spots, that is one tiny gerbil! I think, in fact it is just an unripe thimbleberry.

Hei Hilary, Thanks for the info, Hei Hei, have a good day.

Roudy,
I'm wondering, just before you ran for that pine tree did you size up that bear and did he size you up?

What a coincidence, this is the first time today I could get online. As I've been doing up red raspberries into jam. Picked 4 ice-cream pails at neighbors the other day and there's more! Been freezing them whole for topping my cereal this winter and eating them by handsful now. Also have fresh cranked grape juice I need to make jelly and freeze juice. A lot of work yu becha. Also the dragonfly rings a bell as part of my email address is dragonfly.:> Also I commented just this summer how few fireflies (aka lightning bugs) we had this year. They make my evening porch-sitting a magic time.

Roudy, I bet the bear thought you would be good with berries!

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Speaking of fireflies, my backyard here in Milwaukee was full of them this summer. They were unbelievably huge - and they just seemed to float on the air currents, even up as high as my second story windows. The last few summers they have been quite abundant and I don't remember even seeing them here before that.

Hello Brita and Tina
Nice pics

Well, I got a little bit scared for a minute! I go by A.J. and in fact, this is literally the ONLY place I use Alex Tiensivu, because of the fact so many people know my relatives. So when I saw the message to A.J., without thinking, I said, "Oh, what did I do now?" (ROFL).

Any more bear berry stories out there? I pick blueberries every summer til I am blue in the face and have never run into a bear. When I'm out there I feel like I belong there just as much as they do!

I HAVE SEEN A LOT OF BEAR TRACKS NEAR THE APPLE TREES NEAR NEW ALLOUEZ & IN TRAPROCK VALLEY. I ALWAYS CARRY MY 38. ALSO SAW A MT. LION IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAPROCK VALLEY LAST YEAR. I'D RATHER MEET A BEAR.

Uno and Lydia, following a day of berry picking, were driving down a country road, not saying a word. An earlier berry picking discussion had led to an argument and neither of them wanted to concede their position. As they passed a barnyard of mules, goats, and pigs, Lydia asked sarcastically, "Relatives of yours?" "Yep," Uno replied, "in-laws."

Please help me. I saw something in pics 1 & 3 but can't for the life of me see anything in pic 2 aside from the blueberries & other fauna. Either I need an eye exam or someone is spoofing us.

Regarding fireflies. I too had wondered where they were but the past few yrs when I still lived in Howell there were a ton. This summer I saw them in my yard in Shiawassee County but not abundantly. So perhaps they are cylical? Who knows? Either way they are indeed cool.

Ever have one hit your windshield and still glow after their kamakaze (sp) mission? That is kinda' cool too.

Since hei is hello in finnish I can see using it as a greeting but when your leaveing would you say hello hello.?

Great berry pictures. Did anyone find a good crop
of thimbleberries anywhere there in the U.P.?
There use to be all kinds of them going down the
Trap Rock road from Laurium to Lake Linden.
Thimbleberry jam is great. Can be a problem if you
have any intestinal problems. Very seedy.

Live football tonight at Pasty.NET as Houghton takes on Calumet, the play-by-play courtesy of K-Bear 102.

DJB, That 38 you have wont do much to the bear ,except aggravate him. might as well carry a pellet gun, its much lighter. The saying goes, if you use a light calibre gun on a bear you save the last round for yourself. You need at least a >357 or a 44 Mag.

I looked at today's pictures and I've just got 3 things to say:

YUM

YUM

YUM!

Thanks Dad!

Great pictures by the way. Reminds me of my job this summer. We would pick wild raspberries and blackberries. They were so good.

hei finnferrfumm -- grrreat joke! LOL,LOL

Joanne Of White Lk - some languages other than English use the same word for hello and goodbye, e.g., Italian, "Ciao" and I believe that in Israel they say "Shalom". And I am told in Hawaii they say "Aloha" for both.

Erin of Novi
For a cure of your nostalgia check out the winter festival in Plymouth...not far from you...they have sculptors come from all over the world creating ice sculptures. I believe the date for this event is around January 12, but you can check with their Chamber of Commerce as to the exact date. It is downtown in the City Park. Enjoy

True Bobby!

THE 38 IS ONLY FOR NOISE, NOT TO KILL BEAR.

Final score, Calumet 28, Houghton 20.

How many bears in Upper Michigan?
I was at the Porcupine Mountains and
they warn about them. They are doing
a study here in Wisconsin about Mountain Lions.
Many sightings and none confirmed. I believe
they are here. Love the wildlife and saw
a bear on Labor Day weekend. He looked
at me and just had a expression of what do you want? You have a pretty small car and you
don't bother me much! I'm guessing he was about
350lbs and I felt uneasy about being in a Honda
and of course the camera was in the trunk.
I wasn't getting out to get the camera as
he slowly walked away in the brush. Or she??
I didn't ask..

One of my favorite memories of the UP is picking those delicious little blueberries. I had blueberries and yogurt this morning; the berries were locally grown and good, but they'll NEVER touch those little wild ones.

Oh, I also have lots of fireflies in my woods. They seem to occur in hatches or something; there will be lots of them and then none, then lots again.

Ivan left us w/ lots of leaves and small limbs knocked from the trees, some tornadoes caused quite a bit of localized damage around GA. Also some power outages and flooding but nothing like the coastal areas.

Have a good weekend all you Yoopers and Trolls and
out of State and out of Country and out of mind
Pasty Cam folks!

When Toivo and Eino went on their first trip to Hawaii, the young lady came and put a lei on Toivo's neck and said, "Aloha from Hawaii!" Toivo said, "Ahola from Hancock." :>)
Annuder time Toivo and Eino were walking down the street and came across a construction site with a Taco-Bell sign. Toivo said, "Look at that, Eino, there's probably only two Mexicans in the whole county and already they're getting their own 'phone company!" :>) Carl Pellonpää and Doris are good friends of ours. He has been hosting the SUOMI KUTSUU show for over 42 years! If it's 'hey hey', it's not Finnish. But it may be Fat Albert. The spelling in Finnish is: 'hei hei'. Näkämiin.

On the right side of the blueberry pic, there is an 'impie' looking thing (brown) under the green and brown leaf just below center. Is that what JJJS sees?

Ken,

No, it is more to the left and center. It is the leaf behind and above the 3 blueberries (towards left side). It looks like the little hampster is hiding behind the leaf and only can see his eye and nose.

I did go to the optometrist today and got new glasses. I then went to my shrink and we did the ''what do you see, picture thing''. I failed both tests!! Good Nite Pasty People..

I see it now JJJ! CUTE! Good eye!! Have a good weekend everyone. Sounds like it's going to be pretty nice. Get out and enjoy it while you can. (Some of us have to work--but I get off at 1pm, so I can still enjoy the better part of the day.)

Check out Sharons Copper Cam. The color of the sky looks identical to her background color
( 7:02 a.m.)

JJJS, I see it, I SEE IT! How 'bout that, 'eh?