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Asylum Lake 10 October 2015
 

kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/10/2015 6:19 pm
Asylum Lake 10 October 2015
Just under a year ago I started a hiking journal of sorts in my blog. I didn't know I was starting it at the time, but people kept coming to look at it, so I kept it up.

Thanks! It's been fun!

So today we hiked Asylum Lake again. It was a gorgeous day again, and we left earlier than usual because I wanted chance to watch Michigan demolish Northwestern in the Big House.

It was fifty eight degrees and sunny, perfect hiking weather and we did a two and a half mile walk, round trip, to the east end of the big lake, and the creek that feeds into Little Asylum Lake. Gracie loves that creek and she likes taking a dip in the swimming area on that end of the lake.

There were buzzards circling overhead, and when we got to the lakeshore, several redtailed hawks were circling too. I don't often see them in groups like that, and it was beautiful to watch them floating , and climbing, and closing back in.

It was homecoming weekend for Western Michigan University so there weren't as many students as there might have been, but we did have the company of several luscious coeds. (I wish I could post THOSE pictures.)

The plants here are at different stages than at Al Sabo. This is a forest of mostly oak, with a large area of oak savanna, and a tallgrass prairie restoration. The grass is six feet high, as it was when the first settlers arrived here, and as it was for thousands of year before that. The Native Americans used to burn Prairie Ronde regularly to keep it up.

Prairie Ronde was named by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle when he passed this way in 1680. There were tribes along the St. joseph River who were hostile to the French on LaSalle's return from the Illinois, so his company took an overland route to Detroit from the ancient portage between the Kankakee and the St. Joseph in present day South Bend. Ordinarily the traverse would have taken them down the St. Joe to Lake Michigan and around the lower peninsula into Lake Huron. They passed through Little Prairie Ronde south of Decatur and Prairie Ronde in Kalamazoo County, and left us this lovely name.

And Michigan won, 38-0, their third shutout in a row, a streak not repeated since 1980! Vive Harbaugh!









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keithcancook 67M
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10/10/2015 6:34 pm

 Ha! I'm sure you remember me! ....No?

Well, Mr. BigHouse my alma mater happens to be your favorite nemesis, AND the winner of the greatest upset ever witnessed in NCAA football...

... APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY!!!!

GO MOUNTAINEERS! HA!

Oh yeah, in case I forget =>


redrockrascal 65M
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10/10/2015 7:00 pm

 More cool pics - very nice.
Then you said . . .
"people kept coming to look at it, so I kept it up", and I was speechless.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

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nightsoul1962 61F
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10/10/2015 7:58 pm

 A very informative post, accompanied as usual by beautiful pictures!!!!
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kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/10/2015 8:26 pm
    Quoting keithcancook:
    Ha! I'm sure you remember me! ....No?

    Well, Mr. BigHouse my alma mater happens to be your favorite nemesis, AND the winner of the greatest upset ever witnessed in NCAA football...

    ... APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY!!!!

    GO MOUNTAINEERS! HA!

    Oh yeah, in case I forget =>
it wouldn't have been the greatest upset ever if Michigan had been a run of the kill team. Our victories are counted by the greatness of our opponents. Sniff. However, I doff my hat to you.
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kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/10/2015 8:28 pm
    Quoting  :
I like Michigan State just fine, as long as they aren't playing the Wolverines! That one's coming up next weekend. Go Blue!
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kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/10/2015 8:32 pm
    Quoting  :
And I forgot..I don't know how to recommend a camera, but I liked my Nikon Coolpix pretty well. What do you have now?
The Nikon I'm using now was a gift from my brother-in-law when he upgraded, which made it easier for me- the price was right! So the selection of my own upgrade was out of my hands. It's hard to decide, there are so many options. I might NEVER have upgraded if he hadn't. Send me a message about it, and we'll talk.
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kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/10/2015 8:35 pm
    Quoting Life2belived:
    November will roll around soon...you KNOW what that means.
    Go Bucks.
I am NOT an Ohio State hater. Like I said in my comment to Keith, we measure our greatness by the strength of our rivals. So I want the Buckeyes to win every game but one!
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kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/10/2015 8:42 pm
    Quoting  :
Thank you dear! I got very interested in our local history a few years back, especially in the French explorers and voyageurs who came this way. They were pretty thin on the land, but you still see some French place names here, and particularly in the U.P. I would love to have seen it then, in the seventeenth century. Probaly the most well known pioneer in the South Bend area was Alexis de Coquillard, pronounced of course by Hoosiers as Alex duh Coke Willard.
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kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/10/2015 8:43 pm
    Quoting redrockrascal:
    More cool pics - very nice.
    Then you said . . .
    "people kept coming to look at it, so I kept it up", and I was speechless.
You and me both, my friend, you and me both. I can't figure it out. But I'll take it, and I AM grateful!
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kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/10/2015 8:51 pm
    Quoting yesmamallthetime:
    Great photos. Liked the history too. As to the Harbaugh reference, California's(Stanford and SF 49ers) loss is Michigan's gain.
Thanks! And you are SO right! I celebrated Harbaugh's return last year in a very short (and, OK, profane, post)- Salvation. Michigan was lucky to get him back, and he's proven to have been a messiah for Michigan football.I liked him when he quarterbacked the Wolverines and i've been a fan of his ever since.
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kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/10/2015 8:56 pm
    Quoting mcmaniac:
    I always see the buzzards in groups around here, they look so beautiful overhead and so fucking ugly on the ground. And just fucking huge, 5'-6' wingspans, one nearly flew thru my windshield once.
And if one of then shits on your car, you know it's been shit on! They leave A-bomb sized droppings! We see a lot of buzzards, in groups, but I can't remember ever seeing a whole squadron of redtails like today. If the buzzards are the B29's of the bird world, then the redtails are the P51 mustangs.
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kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/10/2015 8:58 pm
    Quoting  :
They are, and I don't know what they are. I see them at Asylum Lake, but I didn't notice them at Al Sabo. I'm going to have to investigate that.
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kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/10/2015 8:59 pm
    Quoting nightsoul1962:
    A very informative post, accompanied as usual by beautiful pictures!!!!
And YOU have been a loyal reader. Thank YOU!
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kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/10/2015 9:01 pm
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Thanks Kinky. To tell the truth, I'm glad too. I've had great fun doing it. The bloggers here have been wonderful about it.
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keithcancook 67M
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10/10/2015 10:12 pm
    Quoting kzoopair:
    it wouldn't have been the greatest upset ever if Michigan had been a run of the kill team. Our victories are counted by the greatness of our opponents. Sniff. However, I doff my hat to you.
Yeah, well it's only a big deal for us because of the greatness of the Wolverines. One of my best buddies is a Michigan man, and over the years he has caused me to become a sorta kinda fan. I root for Michigan except against the ACC. (which aint sayin much, but it's all we got around here).

So, here's to Michigan...

blue on!


kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/10/2015 10:28 pm
    Quoting keithcancook:
    Yeah, well it's only a big deal for us because of the greatness of the Wolverines. One of my best buddies is a Michigan man, and over the years he has caused me to become a sorta kinda fan. I root for Michigan except against the ACC. (which aint sayin much, but it's all we got around here).

    So, here's to Michigan...

    blue on!
I'm not one of those rabid fans who like trash talking the opposition. I know people have fun with it, but..... And everyone thinks they're the GOOD fans, it's those other people who go overboard. I lived in South Bend for a couple of years and I thought I'd never get over hating Notre Dame fans. Not the team, but the fans. I was rooting for Notre Dame to lose just to piss off their whiny ass rude fans! Ten years away from there and I managed to put that ugly era behind me. It was a struggle!

Having said that...I'm a White Sox fan, and the funniest banner I ever saw was in Wrigley Field, home of the Cubbies. It said "Keep Chicago beautiful- shoot a Sox fan!"
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spunkycumfun 63M/69F
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10/11/2015 6:22 am

 Your hiking blog posts are some of the best posts in bogland!


kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/11/2015 7:16 am
    Quoting spunkycumfun:
    Your hiking blog posts are some of the best posts in bogland!
Aw, thanks, Spunky.
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kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/11/2015 7:19 am
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I liked California, and I liked living in Arizona and New Mexico too, but the Great Lakes is my home and the circle of seasons seems immutable to me, as natural as drawing breath.
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sweet_VM 65F
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10/11/2015 9:37 am

 KZ you do live in a beautiful part of the world.. I love your pics hugssssssss V
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kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/11/2015 9:54 am
    Quoting sweet_VM:
    KZ you do live in a beautiful part of the world.. I love your pics hugssssssss V
Thanks, V, and yes we do!
Hugggggggggs B
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canyaz 56F
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10/12/2015 5:16 am

 All of the photo's are great! as always. Your color is lovely. We have a few more weeks before we really get the Fall show.
There is a difference between a good BJ and a bad BJ.
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kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/12/2015 9:18 am
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Buni, those would be great posts! I love the blogs about the doings in people's daily lives, and you would make that topic sing like the drunken Star Spangled Banner! Bitching can be very entertaining if done with enthusiasm and panache, you know. Please do write those posts!
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kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/12/2015 9:22 am
    Quoting canyaz:
    All of the photo's are great! as always. Your color is lovely. We have a few more weeks before we really get the Fall show.
It varies a bit here but usually the middle of October is the best of it. It depends on the kind of forest, too. The oaks turn late and hold their color longer, and it isn't as bright and vivid as maple and sassafras. Our beeches turn a lovely golden orange and keep their leaves til spring when the new buds begin.
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kzoopair 73M/71F
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10/13/2015 4:44 pm
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Yep! And so far this is a good year!
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