#the rock at lake superior

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Katie Steig’s photograph of the Milky Way with an Iridium satellite flare over The Rock at Lake Superior in Hovland, Minnesota.

Summer Snaps Photo Contest

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Lake Superior

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Gems & Rocks Found in Michigan including Petoskey stones, chlorastrolite, Lake Superior agates, jaspilite, Yooperlite, pudding stones, Fordite

Michigan is a gem for rockhounds and gemstone enthusiasts, showcasing a diverse array of minerals, fossils, and rare stones.

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Hey found this if recently non-surprisingly and fell in love. As an older sibling myself the option to just jump in after Willow with no regard for yourself hit so hard, reminded me of a time when my little sister got herself in a precarious situation and my brotherly instincts kicked into overdrive. The whole I’ve gotta make sure they’re ok at the detriment to oneself. Especially if you don’t even have a good relation with your sibling, it speaks to complicated dynamics and familial expectations which is delicious. I’m absolutely looking forward to the whole mystery and horror, your writing is a delight!

Ahhh tysm for this ask, it's lovely 😭

I have my own share of brotherly instinct stories in regards to my younger siblings so I absolutely feel you haha. I'm glad that part could resonate!!

And yeah complicated family relationships my beloved. MC might not LIKE Willow but that instinct runs deep. Sibling relationships are like narrative catnip to me I can't resist. I'm very excited to keep exploring their dynamic as the story continues ^.^

I'm glad you're enjoying the writing!! I can't wait to dig deeper into the mystery and the horrors, as well <3

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Miner's Beach, Pictured Rock National Lakeshore, Michigan

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Split Rock Lighthouse

a bit north of Duluth, Minnesota

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Some pictures I took in Acadia/Bar Harbor, Maine, unedited ❤️ It was very Assassin's Creed aesthetic

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The small but beautiful Elliot Falls cascades down layers of sandstone and into Lake Superior - Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. By Neil Weaver Photography 📸

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Have You Ever Seen Anything So Blue?

[Reposted from Grant's Cohost page]

This August, as I walked a gravel trail toward Au Sable point, I thought about the change in the people of northern Michigan. We drove to the trailhead along a county road that dips in and out of the jagged border of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. The inhabited parts outside show the pivot of an economy based on mining and fishing to one based on selling lunches and renting kayaks to people curious about historic mining and fishing. And for a second, I fell into the romantic thought that no matter how life changes, it's the same rocks and the same trees.

This is false. As I discovered on last year's trip, the vital thing to remember is how everything is constantly changing. The composition of the now-protected forest is permanently changed by the logging industry. And without that logging industry, the dune at Log Slide Overlook continues to grow taller and forever cover the spot where logs were slid to the lake. The people, the rocks, and the trees are all changing, all the time. The hope is that they change together, and can support one another. The National Park service is something I believe in.

But the lake, god willing, is forever. I remember last year, sitting in the cabin my aunt rented, watching the sky dim out the window, as the lake grew darker and darker. The waves seemed to spread in every direction. The biggest thing I've ever seen and it was growing, pushing beyond the boundary of the shore. I was a few dozen feet away, up a small hill, behind a window, and there are moments I thought I might fall in from my seat on the couch. I've lived on the Great Lakes and the waterways that connect them most of my life, but Superior is somehow different.

There is no center and no end. None you can perceive. There is only breadth and depth and expanse and blue. It's commerce and wilderness and ecosystem and postcards. Storms and harbors. Constant sound in variable volume. To see, every day, an accident of glacial geology that bore a wonder of creation, to know it supported centuries of history, and eat its fish fried in the back of a truck. Have you ever seen anything so blue?

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Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan

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Ice-coated sandstone cave along the south shore of Lake Superior. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, USA

By Ian Plant

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"Arched Rock - Mackinac." James Ackerman, lith. "Report on the Geology and Topography of a Portion of the Lake Superior Land District in the State of Michigan, Part II, The Iron Region, Together with the General Geology," by J.W. Foster and J.D. Whitney, United States geologists, printed for the House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., 1851, Plate XVIII.

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery

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Black Rocks Bouldering - Marquette

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i need you guys to look at my pretty pretty rocks 👀💕❤❤💕

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Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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