Friday, August 4, 2017

Greetings from Sand River, outside Marquette MI. One of the nice
places in the world to wake up. This morning it was 53 degrees, cloudy and
windy. This is just a few degrees warmer than when we were in Marquette last
February. But, we were on the Sand River so one can’t complain.

Surf’s up on Lake Superior. What used to be the beach near Sand River.

Surf’s up on Lake Superior

Surf’s up on Lake Superior

Been a crazy week or so. I’m starting to feel like a long-distance
trucker. Wednesday, July 26, I drove back to Pennsylvania for a few days.
Stayed a couple of days at Lynn’s place on the Susquehanna River outside of
Lock Haven, then Saturday drove down to Lebanon for a family reunion on Sunday.
Left from the family reunion with a load of scrapple, Lebanon Bologna, and other
animal based goodies and drove back to Okemos, getting in late on Sunday. Monday
morning, I took Lindsay for her driver’s license test, which she aced. Monday
evening, I went with Molly and Mitchell to a Dropkick Murphys concert, a couple
of hours away in Farmington Hills. We only got back about 1:00 AM. I spent
Tuesday and Wednesday building a canoe rack for Joanna, then hauled it up here
on Thursday. We looked like something out of the Beverly Hillbillies, hauling the
canoe rack, three kayaks, a couple bicycles, and an assortment of other things in
our trailer. It’s probably a good thing today was kind of nasty. Gives one a
chance to recharge the batteries.

Haven’t had much luck with odonata photography this year. You
need two things for good odonata pictures; sun, and no wind. Most of times I’ve
been out lately have been cloudy, or windy, or usually both. I got out a bit on
the Susquehanna in less than ideal conditions. No dragonflies, but I got two
new species of damselflies; dusky dancer and powdered dancer. The dusky dancer
is particularly nice since they don’t range into Michigan.