Duluth Vistas

We climbed Enger Tower. I forgot to take a picture of it! The Tower is 5 stories tall. There are 96 steps from the entrance of the Tower to the top. Goodness! I am quite pleased that I managed to make it all the way to the top without stopping. Whew! I could really feel it by the top. These are shots from the top of the Tower. The bridge in the first two pictures is a lift bridge, the entire center of the bridge rises vertically to allow a vessel through. We stayed near the Bridge. Downtown Duluth has a neat boardwalk that extends for miles for pedestrians, bicycles and other healthy activities. There were so many families out Saturday morning!

This picture actually shows the distance from the Tower to the Bridge, but the zoom feature helped tremendously on the first one! The distance caused the pictures to have a blue tint that I couldn't fix.

A different view from the Tower.

I planned to show you a picture of my socks that I'm working on, I started the first one on the way up, and almost finished the second sock top on the way home. I have a half inch to go on the second top, and then it is on to the heels on both of them. Unfortunately, the pictures do now show the pattern or the correct color. I'll try again tomorrow, in the sunlight.

It is good to be home. We are all unpacked, and looking forward to the rest of the week that Howard has off.

Roots

I am fascinated by trees growing out of rocks. Emblamatic of struggle, of endurance, of strength... These trees were at Gooseberry Falls.

Duluth Trip 1

Here are Nathan and Kim at Gooseberry Falls.

The Visitors Center has a bird feeder outside, and the deer come and feed from what the birds have dropped. They are so used to people that they don't even move. I used the zoom function on my camera, but we were probably 20 feet away. See how they are shedding their winter coats?

The Falls. We walked down, and saw the rush of water and the smaller ice fall off to the side,

Duluth Trip 2

The ice was mainly gone from Lake Superior, but there were places where it insisted on staying around.

This bit of ice fascinated me, as you can see the melting of the ice underneath, but the top still is solid snow. See the icicles hanging down below the snow? Amazing!

Look how much more of the ice there is than on the surface! A miniature iceberg!






Okay, I'll admit that the melting ice fascinated me. These are from a (mainly) sandy beach. There are holes in the ice, it is jagged, and it all is melting from underneath!