It’s hard to slip one by eagle-eyed Bud Andress. He immediately recognized the location of last month’s wallpaper with Great Lake Swimmers performing on a flea-bitten barge in the middle of the River during the filming of “Ballad of a Fisherman’s Wife.”
I thought I’d share a somewhat different image this month, not just to revisit summer, but to celebrate the fact that Great lake Swimmers' latest album, New Wild Everywhere, was just nominated for a Juno. For those who may not know, the Junos are Canada’s top music awards, our equivalent to the...
I suspect that many of you have had limited exposure to the River during the off season. For that reason and because this is my first full winter here, I tend to think it’s more interesting to continue to share winter moods than reverting to summer, at least for the moment. If you’re starved f...
We begin the New Year with a transformed River. I had been intending to share an earlier, arguably more compelling view of this scene, taken at dawn on November 9th, but then on December 28th, our first winter storm finally relented, leaving us with a transformed landscape. This is how it looks no...
No cigar identifying last month's image, but Ken Herring, John Krake and Libby Jewsbury's guesses of the view from Waterson State Park's cruiser dock came very close. The partial island on the right is the western tip of Ash Island and this view looks towards Ivy Lea, on the way across from the...
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