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The impressive Marquette County courthouse, built during the height of the mining era.

The world's largest wooden dome, at Northern Michigan University.

Where I lived in 1979, I still remember how the snow drifts would reach the roof.

The B-52 Stratofortress, the raison d'etre for the base.

Next, we went hiking and camping in the Porcupine Mountains, part of the largest wilderness in Michigan and one of the few remaining virgin timber areas in the Midwest. This time, we hiked seven miles into the woods, up and down hills, to camp-out overnight.

Mirror lake, where we stopped to make lunch.

A little chipmunk communes with Heather (look where she is looking). We saw only a few people on the trail, and no one else after 6:00 p.m. It was a little spooky camping out and knowing that there was on one else around for miles, but I guess that shows that we haven't been out in the woods enough lately. Fortunately, there were no strange sounds at night, it was absolutely quiet.

The appropriately named Lake of the Clouds.

Sunset on Lake Superior.

The Presque Isle River.

The flowing water has carved interesting forms.
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