Drink a fragrant cup of herbal tea, and the intoxicating scent of steeped herbs might calm your mind before you even take a sip. Even better is when they come from your own backyard herb garden. Mine includes several ingredients for my daily cup, and they're all easy to grow and ...

“Takes rocks and gravel, baby, to make a solid road, make a solid road,” – Bob Dylan Growing up in a turn-of-the-20th century mining company house, within sight of a hematite mine that had been in operation for nearly a hundred years before I was born, I think I always felt that the red ...

“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” – Henery David Thoreau Well, we should get a bit of summer in the middle of … oh, wait, it is summer! This is one of those summer types the Upper Peninsula occasionally experiences, creating a clearly different ...

Munising: Boat anglers trolling the bay and around Grand Island picked reported catching a few Chinook salmon and coho salmon, along with a few splake. Anglers trolling and jigging for lake trout also had good success. Keweenaw Bay/Huron Bay: Anglers reported good numbers of coho salmon being ...

“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.” – John Steinbeck Suddenly, summer! Leaf out appears to be complete for all but a few black locust trees. Lilacs are full and daisies are just about ready to bloom. Sadly, it looks like grass ...

“I remember to this day, the bright red George clay and how it stuck to the tires after the summer rain. Willpower made that old car go, a woman’s mind told me that it’s so. Oh, how I wish we were back on the road again,” – Lobo In this spot on the map there’s a lake I knew well ...