On July 4, 2026, I was walking on the logging road through the commercial forest land behind our house, and happened to spot this thin line of ants scurrying in both directions across the road.
read more…Up between Laurium and Lake Linden, Hammell Creek goes over an escarpment, making a waterfall. This would not be too notable (the creek doesn’t have a particularly high flowrate), except that the escarpment is something like 110 feet. This makes the waterfall the highest one in the state of Michigan, by a fairly solid margin. Here is the view from the top, I had to take two pictures to get most of it in because it was too tall to fit in one:
read more…My brother lives in Tennessee, and back on April 5, 2026 he sent me these pictures and asked, “Are these termites?”
