another day in the northwoods~

Went fishing again ...

It was day before yesterday and Sara and her soon to be hubby Don and I took advantage of our neighbors new dock ... that my nephew Mark makes and installs through his company ~ Northern Pier.

It started to rain...
but we kept on fishing... or at least Don and Sara did ... I grabbed my camera and started to wander around the shoreline a little bit to see what I could see.

Like this pretty little yellow flag and it's cousin the blue flag:

and this cinnamon fern ... showing it's cinnamon stick ~

Some reindeer moss and lichen  and a pretty little root sticking out of the ground that makes a nice hand rail when walking up the hill from the dock ~

some tree branches ~
balsam:

cedar:

one of Sara's fish ~ a little bluegill ...

You should have seen the one that got away!  She was reeling in a perch and a musky grabbed hold of it.  She had on too light of tackle and lost it right at the dock when we tried to scoop it up with the landing net. 

some snake berry buds and bunch berry blossoms ~

a pretty little island bog ~

and an old petrified log ~ no doubt from the "Old Days" of river logging ~

and a menacing sky ... full of rain clouds that the sunshine was trying it's hardest to peek through ~

Until next time...
So it goes in my neck of the woods.
~mel