I love this photo.
We spent the fourth like we always do, exploring the environs hugging the southern tip of Lake Superior. My photos are similar year after year, but it’s still fun to take them. It’s even more fun to ride the bike trails on my ebike. We spent most of our time outside, but we did see Disclosure Day in the local theatre. Have you read The Levitation Game? If you like Aliens, you have to read my grounded sci-fi novel that’s really a jungle adventure at heart, with a loveable alien character. But for now, follow my feet…
Duluth is so far north that peonies are just beginning to bloom!
The Rustic Inn serves a mean five layer chocolate pie.
The hilly, twisty and wild Gitchi Gami bike trail.
Gooseberry Falls
I stacked my first cairn in Canal Park!
My husband made one, too.
A lake monster flew over Duluth! Run for your life! It’s really just a spider hanging in our window. I love when we get a lift bridge view.
We watched the fireworks from our hotel room. It was the best of the midwest.
The Willard Munger Trail.
A promo cut from Duluth’s basalt rock!
“A slow burn, supernatural delight that seeps into your soul and sinks its claws in.” ~ Desiree Horton author of Midnight Mother
Dear Sharon, I think you couldn’t have spent July 4th in a better way. The bike trip looks wonderful—and the photo you love is truly incredibly harmonious, yet wild and exuberant at the same time!
All the best from Austria 🤗
Traude
https://rostrose.blogspot.com/2026/06/reisebericht-2025-von-ahornblattern-und.html
What lovely scenery.
Such beautiful shots. Wow. Your phone camera takes amazing shots. Okay, you have a lot to do with them being amazing.
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Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. ♥
It all looks so enchanting from great heights to lakeside cairn. It’s a great way to spend the fourth in each others company doing what you both love best. May your week ahead be filled with more wonders.
Beautiful photos! Congrats on stacking your first cairn, looks great!
Hello Sharon,
The bike ride and watching the fireworks are fun ways to celebrate the 4th of July.
I love the scenic views, the falls, the flowers and the lake. The moth is pretty.
Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Take care, enjoy your day and the week ahead.
Hello Sharon,
What a nice post with wonderful pictures.
Great to see all these nice places which you have visit. Funny shot with the hanging feeds and the pile of stones of passing people.
Wonderful flowers and funny that small library.
Many greetings,
Marco
Lindo lugar. Te mando un beso.
🚴♀️ The bike trails, cairn stacking, and fireworks all sound like such perfect summer moments.
I smiled at the “lake monster” spider.
Your photos are stunning as always, Sharon.
What beautiful photos of your outing.
That pile of stones is very lovely, and I think the flowers are beautiful too.
I wish you a lovely Wednesday.
All the best, Irma
Lots of wonderful photos. My favourite is the one on the beach with the rock sculpture in foreground. Congratulations on your book award. It’s gratifying to be recognized for one’s work.
I think your cairns brought on the lake monster and he was fought off with the fireworks. You can’t fool me.
Love the trail shots
You have some beautiful photos here and you had a great view of the fireworks. Thank you for linking up.
Oh my, those flowers are gorgeous. I never heard of that bike trail, it looks incredible. I would love to ride my bike there.