And another season ends -

Site #31

Memorial Campground - Washburn, WI

A day of "last times" for the season -

Last day at the Beach - LAKE is smooth as glass.

Canopy is off the trailer!  Whew...

A golden glow all around...

The last campfire...

Last Morning on the Trail to Washburn's West End Campground

Fall Asters along the trail

Ahhh - the LAKE

Still barefoot at the beach - on October 11th!!!

The colors are popping out all over now.

                                  Houghton Falls Trail

It's getting close to the end of our season :-(

There have not been too many butterflies this summer, so it was a real pleasure to see this monarch.

A little wiggler!

AT THE BEACH

Click on the pic to see the fisherpeople - the trout and whitefish are in!

The two "Jims"

Took a walk in Woodruff WI  with brother-in-law Jim and his friend, Jim

Beach and Blueberies

Who would think we could find blueberries on October 7th?

Just sittin' on a log at the beach....still a barefoot day!

The Wooly Caterpillar

On our trail this morning -

Applefest Finale and Parade

The crowd on Rittenhouse Avenue

The Mayor greets "Applefesters"

Maggie's Famous parade entry 

Go Washburn-Bayfield-South Shore Guards

The mass band - all marching bands come back down the street 

"On Wisconsin"

It's all about the apples.

Friday Night Hometown Football

The Washburn-Bayfield-South Shore Guards vs Bessemer, MI Gogebics

Applefest - gale force winds - what a combination!

Some new personnel debuted with the Blue Canvas Orchestra today - sounding great!

Last Tuesday, October 1st - the "Before" picture

Today, October 4th - the "After" pciture

The sound is no good, but the pictures say it all - windy!

Everyday can't be sunny....and why not?

A "Heart" rock - a little too big to take home

Looking at Memorial Park Campground from the Washburn Marina

Mt. Ashwabay

We carried our "bear" sticks - no bears to be seen!

The summit!  Looking down to the site of the ski chalet in winter and the Big Top Chatauqua tent in summer.  The tent is all packed away for the winter.

An Autumn day at the LAKE

Holopedium gibberum, a tiny cladoceran crustacean. Cladocerans, which include other small aquatic animals like daphnia, are part of the zooplankton of lakes and ponds. Like most cladocerans, Holopedium reproduces in two ways. Throughout the summer, females reproduce asexually through parthenogenesis, which means that females lay unfertilized eggs which hatch into more females – no males needed. In Holopedium, the developing eggs are carried in a brood pouch on the back of the female. This brood pouch can be twice as long as the female and looks like a gelatinous fish egg. When the density of Holopedium is high, they can wash up on beaches . Towards the end of the summer or early fall, some of the offspring will be male and sexual reproduction occurs. The result of this is fertilized “resting” eggs that survive the winter on the bottom of the lake. When these eggs hatch in the spring, they start the cycle over again.

The Mister swears this is a bear footprint - may need an expert opinion on this.  

The perfect "perch"

In the "blue" family...

Chicory has to take the title as the longest lasting wildflower of the year.  I wish I had noted when it first made its appearance alongside the roads. It is still blooming, even though the green leaves are dead.

The Mister gets a big kick out of seeing this blue Sprinter around town.  So today we made a comparison photo with our little Ford.

Crisp LAKE air with a splash of sun

Bayview Park Beach

Still barefoot but the water is getting colder .....

Memorial Park Campground

Autumn Walk

Pretty sumac - and The (handsome) Mister

I can still find colorful weeds for the vase.

Ashland WI - Lake Sightings

Historic Hotel Chequamegon