Celebrating with Lake Superior

This picture is from earlier this month, but it looked like this tonight, too, since there is a storm coming.  It was possibly the hottest day all summer, up to 95˚ out on our deck, and very "soupy" (humid) outside.  We drove down to the lake tonight where it was still 85˚ at 8pm, saw some friends in wading, so we joined them.  And I actually tried the wading part with the water still around 50˚!  Cooled me right down, for sure!

But tonight I was going to show some pictures from Lake Superior Days this weekend.  The one exhibit that was going on both Saturday and Sunday was the Quilt Show, and that might be the part that we spent the most time on last week.  Here are some of the quilts on display:

Leann made the "Bugs & Creatures" quilt below.  Bugs on the fabrics and bugs and creatures in the quilt.

There were also displays of art and science projects from the school here and from the Iron River National Fish Hatchery.

Other events happening away from the Town Hall included a Power Boat Wash down by the lake, a visit on a Coast Guard Rescue boat, and a tour of Everett Fisheries where they smoke all the yummy trout, salmon, chubs and more that you can buy at Johnson's Store.  We took the tour a couple years ago and it was really interesting.  I guess we were otherwise occupied this year for some of these events.

Two main events on Sunday was the "bird talk" presentation by Laura Erickson.  She told us about her "Big Year" of birding and the 200+ pictures she showed were all birds she saw within a mile or two of Lake Superior, many of them right here in and around Port Wing. 

Below is Leann presenting Laura with a bird quilt that Leann made.

And here are some of Laura's suggested birding books, including her book, For the Birds, from a few years ago.

 And First Lutheran Church served lunch--sloppy joes, potato salad, beans, watermelon--and PIE!  

And the final event was the Michael Monroe concert at 2pm.  He has a guitar--electronic, digital, you name it--that is amazing and the things he can do with it is even more amazing!  It was a great way to wrap up the weekend.

It all kind of brought home to me that summer is half over.  Maybe sometimes you can be TOO busy!