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The 2020 Snow Guage Contest is now open! Go here and enter your guess! The Leland Report 2020 Snow Gauge Contest 10 Degrees colder and it would have looked like this… The 2020 Leland Report Calendar is available for $15.99+$2 shipping! Click on the following link to order. There is a special on the Book+Calendar combination at $45 (You get… Read more »
Pictures below by Julia Burnham The 2020 Leland Report Calendar is available for $15.99+$2 shipping! Click on the following link to order. There is a special on the Book+Calendar combination at $45 (You get the calendar for $6 !) https://www.burnhamgraphicarts.com/specialty-items/e5b7837c1
(Report by Jim) I took the light wand (a modified LED lighted umbrella shaft) down to South Beach last night. A friend of mine commented on how pretty the sky looked with Leland illuminating the haze in the sky against the contrasting pitch blackness of the horizon. I took it a step further. I’ll be heading back tomorrow, maybe I’ll… Read more »
(Report by Jim) Work from home day today, but we took some time to have lunch at Knot Just a Bar in Omena. Up at Leelanau State Park Trail earlier this week we found a huge piece of tree fungus with some engravings on it. And the Biscuit Report! The 2020 Leland Report Calendar is available for $15.99+$2 shipping!… Read more »
(Report by Jim) Merry Christmas from our families to yours! My nephew Matt and I went up to Mud Lake to do some drone shots. It’s amazing the things you can see if you change your perspective. Down at the end of Onomonee Rd is what we call Sunset Beach for good reasons. But the view from above is just… Read more »
(Report by Jim) Another place you might not know about, at the end of the road just past Woosley Airport, near the tip of the peninsula, is a short road that ends at a trail that’s part of the Leelanau State Park. The trail loops around and has a lookout and a way down to the dunes and beach. Hiking… Read more »
A tree (above) exposed by the receding shoreline, stands just to the west of the Glen Haven Cannery building on Sleeping Bear Bay. Still sturdy and deep-rooted, it stands as a sentinel, taking in the changes as well as the steady horizon. Best wishes this holiday week! Don’t forget, if you want to save the shipping and get a… Read more »
Jim’s report: Today I am giving you a few things some of you have probably have never experienced before and I invite you to visit. The first photo is the Janice Sue which is in Arcadia for a marine survey (Take State St to the harbor from M22) . I’ve never seen the keel of the Janice Sue, have you?… Read more »
Today we offer a glance toward the horizon over the Manitou Passage, with one lone tug and barge heading northward, visible as merely a black dot or two in front of North Manitou (above). Whether during the warm summer months or now, graced with some snow, we head to the shore to take in the distant horizon. Also above: remembering… Read more »