Beautiful as always;)

Great pictures, Nita!

Copper Harbor, Michigan.

You must have been up on the Keweenaw peninsula, a rocky ridge extending into Lake Superior. This piece of landscape is geologically interesting as it is of molten rock origin. This is one place in the United States where native copper occurs. (Native copper is copper in metallic form instead of a compound of copper such as copper-oxide or copper-sulfate. Native Americans first worked copper outcrops on this spit of land, later followed by European immigants. Some of the Native Americans held an aversion to using 'raw' copper utensils since some had sickened on exposure to this material. They were not aware of the posionus nature of some of the compounds of copper.

A number of native copper mines were established and worked extensively over 100 years ago by US settlers. Most of those mines are closed; one may be open for a fee to rock collectors looking for copper specimens. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, I collected specimens at old mine dumps and as time passed, these sites became restricted and amatuer collecting dryed up.

Silver does occur to a lesser amount than copper. One relatively rare specimen is called a "half breed". It contains copper and silver on the same rock. Some of the copper is alloyed with about 2% silver making it a very tough bronze.

The west side beaches were a source of agates, but are scarce today.

A stop at the school mines at Houghton may be worthwhile. It has been years since I visited there to look at their specimen collection. They had one of the finest collections ever of agates plus other specimens associated with copper. I do not know if that is yet available, but it is worth an inquiry.

Beware that black bears are present near campsites of the northern end of this peninsula. They are attracted to garbage dumps and after dark do roam through camp sites looking for edibles. Some of these have lost their fear of humans and as such are dangerous. I do not recommend tent camping.

I love lighthouses! That B & B to-be is gorgeous.
JemDandy, I love all of your stories that you put in to the postings!

aren't they awesome? and much needed before all the electronics these days! lake Michigan can be a terror in certain storms...lots of lost ships...

someday I hope you get to san diego and see their lighthouse...the location is on pt loma, but on certain foggy nights the old one probably couldn't be seen,.,it's high on a cliff! (the coast guard have built one at the base)...another interesting factor when you drive out to the compound, are these "caves" along the way..well during ww2, they were actually gun turrets to protect the one way in one way out harbor! I used to go up and watch dh's ship come in, then go and pick him up (1970) after the kids arrived, it was fave picnic spot...