Photos by Big V

Sights like this are *almost* common in the UP, and I loved every one of them I saw! Sign in to see full entry.

I tried taking this shot standing up, but I about fell backward and hurt myself, so I laid down on the forest floor and took this shot. Sign in to see full entry.

This was one of my favorite places to visit when I lived in the UP. See that reddish area to the left of center that is a small blotch of red where the sky and the water meet? Go out about fifteen miles, and that is about where the Edmund Fitzgerald went down. In the song, The Wreck of the Edmund... Sign in to see full entry.

My dad had this thing about waking me up every morning to start the farm chores where he would turn my bedroom light on and tell me, "Come on, Doc! It's daylight in the swamps!" I have never been a morning person, but every time I hear that old saying, I remember Dad laughing as he walked away from... Sign in to see full entry.

I could and often have sat in the Hiawatha National Forest for hours and just looked around me. Sign in to see full entry.

I caught these three youngin's playing on some old scrap lumber near a friend's home. They were wrassling and yapping and just generally horsing around. Sign in to see full entry.

Just another beautiful Upper Peninsula evening. Sign in to see full entry.

This is a photo of my family twenty years ago. Left to right in the back is my daughter, Amanda, my son, "Skip," and me. Seated are my wife, Judy, and our grandson, Bruce. Skip had just been promoted in the Air Force and given several medals due to his actions as a medic in combat in Iraq. I'm not... Sign in to see full entry.

I loved taking sunset photos, and this is one of thousands! Sign in to see full entry.

I know the name of these little beauties, but their name slips my mind this morning. Fortunately, you don't need their name to enjoy their beauty. Sign in to see full entry.