Keweenaw snow photos

[ArlyA]

Re: Keweenaw snow photos, getting to be spring!

Photos while out today. My dearest took time off to travel so we could see my mother in SD, who's ill with cancer. So much for that idea but her employer would not let her change her schedule after travel was shut down, so now she has time off. The rock they are standing on in the top photo is Nonesuch Shale that's 1.1 billion years old. Please let me know if you like to see these photos.

 

[dodge man]

Amazing to still see snow, it was 79 degrees here today.

 

[ArlyA]

Amazing to still see snow, it was 79 degrees here today.

Thanks Dave. I'll keep posting photos. The reason we moved here was the great year-around weather. We don't have ac in our house and most people here don't.

 

[Buppies]

Really enjoy your pictures thanks

 

[fried1765]

Amazing to still see snow, it was 79 degrees here today.

It is 79 degrees here......every day,
......until it becomes 89 degrees every day.
I want to fly North....but I don't want to fly at all!

 

[ArlyA]

We went for a little hike today on some trails located up the Keweenaw a bit and built by the monks at the Poorrock Abbey. The mine ruins are Arnold mine which I can't find much info about. I love industrial history and you might note, these foundations were made without mortar. How could they do that?

 

[spitter]

Lots of founditions back in the day were dry laid {no mortar]. Some held up some didn't . If you realy look at those joints they are packed and wedged with small stones that's the way you build a dry laid wall! Ive worked in 200 year old houses and buildings with dry laid founditions that look great and probably last another 200 years.:drink:

 

[ArlyA]

Lots of founditions back in the day were dry laid {no mortar]. Some held up some didn't . If you realy look at those joints they are packed and wedged with small stones that's the way you build a dry laid wall! Ive worked in 200 year old houses and buildings with dry laid founditions that look great and probably last another 200 years.:drink:

The copper country did not see mortar (or concrete) shipped here until the turn of the century. Previous to that they simply used lime and put a roof over the buildings. Of course they still had to tuck-n-groove to keep up with deterioration of it. Today as seen in the photos, all the lime that would have been visible from the outside, has long washed away.

 

[oosik]

Yes, Arlyn, I DO like your photos. Particularly the dog blog.

 

[ArlyA]

We got a a tad of snow here over the past 12 hours. Enough to push around but nothing serious.