The North Shore and Upper Peninsula

Various pictures from around Wisconsin's North Shore and Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Lake Superior's beach. The closer you got to shore, the smaller the rocks got. They were horrendous to walk on. My feet still hurt.

Fall's colors starting to bloom in Ironwood, Michigan -- the very beginning of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

 

Land o' Lakes, Wisconsin. The town was small with a few touristy shops, but no butter. There were no farms, so I don't know where Land o' Lakes got its name. For sure, this area is definitely the land of many lakes. This is Grass Lake:

Fumee Falls -- a rest area just east of Iron Mountain, Michigan:

These pictures were taken in Norway, Michigan. The building is a stage in the center of Norway. The lake is Strawberry Lake and the tree with the mushroom was by the lake on a path that encircled the whole lake.

A "lawn" ornament in the middle of a field: 

 

I passed by this sample log home that I absolutely fell in love with:

My last stop was at a tourist attraction called "The Magic Spot." It is a geological phenomenon that makes the gravitational pull of the earth edge toward the east. The place was discovered in 1950 by two surveyors who noticed that their plumb bobs would not hang straight. The area was opened to the public as a tourist attraction in 1955

This last picture is of some red mushrooms that were growing outside the Magic Spot building: