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April 15, 2008 01:45 PM EDT --                                             . . . more
August 11, 2006 06:15 PM EDT -- I'd like to suggest Damian McNichol's Smiling Dolphis to the Best of Gather. Until I read this article I was one of the many who enjoy watching Dolphins perform in Zoos and waterparks. Damian takes . . . more
March 03, 2007 11:44 AM EST --  I wrote the below during the midst of a blizzard and then lost my connection for two days. I am finally able to repost with photos.      I am in total awe. We have got massive seas . . . more
July 22, 2006 09:32 PM EDT -- I come before you humbled and admonished. My son said, "Mom, how could you?" My husband said, "But Beryl . . ." Sportsmen  said "You didn't!" Yes. I have sinned . . . more
December 03, 2006 05:29 PM EST -- I thought I’d completed the process of writing a book when my memoir, The Scent of God , was published by Counterpoint, NY, this April. I didn’t realize that the most arduous part of authorship . . . more
September 01, 2006 05:41 PM EDT -- We've been blessed with kind of weather that convinces tourists that there is no more beautiful place on earth than Lake Superior's North Shore. Brilliant warm days filled with cooling breezes . . . more
February 15, 2007 12:44 PM EST --  Since late November I’ve watched a new beach form on our Lake Superior shoreline. It did not exist when we moved here eight years ago. It grows a bit every day. Now it measures around 18 feet . . . more
March 05, 2007 12:28 PM EST -- Just couldn't resist posting a few more photos of the incredible ice mountains formed last Thursday and Friday due to the blizzard on Lake Superior's North Shore. My hubby, Bill Christ, was in . . . more
October 05, 2006 07:11 PM EDT -- This summer, as one week wended toward the next with no sign of rain, many of us believed we'd have little fall color. The trees were too stressed we thought. And, when the color seemed to peak around . . . more
October 13, 2006 01:58 PM EDT -- At four o'clock this morning I caught the seven Pleiades sisters dancing. Why I woke with such alacrity I do not know. I didn't need to yawn, nor did I want to snuggle under the covers for a bit . . . more
April 18, 2007 08:05 AM EDT -- “Mommy, “ my children shouted as they careened breathlessly into the kitchen from outside. “Will there still be trees when we grow up?”  If  they hadn’t been so . . . more
March 24, 2008 10:37 PM EDT -- My 11-year-old granddaughter Amber woke recently to a sight that caused her to shout, "Grandmommy, look at the lake. It's covered with ice. I never saw Lake Superior covered with ice before." . . . more
January 28, 2007 08:56 PM EST -- I made a New Year’s resolution to spend Sundays as Sabbath days. I would worship, connect with family via phone or letter, and visit with friends on Gather. I would not work on my book, clean the . . . more
April 26, 2007 08:10 AM EDT -- During our early April blizzard a robin appeared. It looked absolutely miserable clinging to the berry tree near the feeder all puffed and huddled, head pulled into its bright orange breast. Not only . . . more
May 07, 2008 08:26 PM EDT -- The Sentinel -- an average giant When we set off earlier this week for the Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks we had no idea "where" these parks were. We knew only what . . . more
September 22, 2006 06:47 PM EDT -- Fires, that as of this morning, might have been smoldering in the Boundary Waters have certainly been drowned today. We've got ourselves a November storm in September here on the North Shore. I'd . . . more
October 03, 2006 06:54 PM EDT -- It looks like our old dog needs some encouragement to take a hike today but don't let appearances fool you. She's been barking her head off, so anxious she is to get going. It's just that sometimes . . . more
September 16, 2006 01:23 PM EDT -- Warm sun and scintillating breezes propelled us out of the house on September 7 to canoe the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The closest access site is on Sawbill Lake, a mere half hour . . . more
Sea Monsters
by Beryl Singleton Bissell
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August 29, 2007 07:14 PM EDT --   I live next to Lake Superior, the second largest fresh water lake in the world. Only Lake Baikal in Russia surpasses her -- not in size because Superior is 19,000 sq. miles larger, but in volume. . . . more
September 29, 2007 06:03 PM EDT -- The day the calendar announced fall’s arrival – a pounding rain doused the North Shore. The darkened, cloud-menacing sky that had hovered over the northland for two days sent waters gushing . . . more
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