Lake Superior


Winter on the North Shore

We did it! We made it through our first major snowstorm of the season. Traffic made us late to work, we were chilled by the cold wind breezing past our cheeks, and we were forced to round up all of…


Snowshoe Rabbit

We’ve been waiting for another snowfall to share this little guy – a snowshoe rabbit. Walter J. Breckenridge captured these images of a snowshoe rabbit near the north shore of Lake Superior in the winter of 1927. Breckenridge was then…


Friday Flora: The Spirit Tree

I was entering caption information for the botanical photographs in the Department of Botany collection. This involved matching the digital reference image on my computer screen to the physical mounted photograph on my desk, deciphering the hand-written plant identification scrawled…


Friday Flora: Caption this!

In addition to some flora, since it is Friday, let’s add some fun… The actual caption for this photograph from the Department of Botany collection reads, “Talus vegetation, lichens and small shrubs, Lake Superior region” Something tells me that…