Karen and I took a fall trip up north in 2018 and stopped at the aptly nicknamed “Root Beer Falls.” If the photo makes the water look like a giant mug of foaming root beer, well, that’s pretty much how it looks in person. The color comes from tannins — the same natural compounds that…
Another waterfall from our October 2018 trip — this one is Copper Falls, and we caught it on a cold, gray fall afternoon that called for hats and heavy coats. You can just see the falls dropping through the gorge behind us, framed by evergreens and the last of the fall color. Worth the chilly…
If you’ve ever been to the Porcupine Mountains in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, you know this view. This is the famous Lake of the Clouds overlook, photographed from up on the escarpment on September 30th, 2018. From the rocky outcrop at the top, the land just falls away beneath you — the long, narrow lake tucked…