Northwoods Sunset

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Finally! My first fish this year!

Well it finally happened!

All losing streaks must come to an end and this one was a long time coming.

Last week, my brother, Kurt, caught fish after fish, including a nice 4 pound bass. Of course, along with his fish he hurled insults at me, understandably so since I was skunked!

Yesterday, on the most glorious of days, the worm turned. I finally caught a fish. In an amazing coincidence, I caught it at the same spot Kurt caught his. And as I pulled it out of the water I noticed a striking similarity to the one he caught.

Check the pics below and see if you don't agree.

Here is the original that Kurt caught.

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The resemblance is uncanny wouldn't you agree?

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The dragonfly hatch is unsurpassed this year. The mosquito population disappears. Yippeee!

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A snapping turtle hesitates to lay eggs while Emma feigns indifference.

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Note Kurt's devilish grin as he taunts the picture taker with his latest 'prize.' State records remain unthreatened.

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The Northwoods at its best.

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A Northwoods storm blows in.

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This is actually a picture of a minnow that Kurt used as bait. He demanded that it be held 2 cm from the camera to appear bigger.

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Kurt continues to taunt with a napping fish that he snagged with his bare hands. He, of course, insisted that it count as a 'catch.'

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Emma (before)

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Emma (after)

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Echo's artistic side gets support.

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Cody thinks that things are gnarly, dude.

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Tiffani has to call me "Lord of My Waking Dreams" after losing a bet.

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Cody contemplates life.

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Echo and Tiffani mug for the camera.

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Echo and lilacs

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An armament at Fort Worden, where An Officer and a Gentleman was filmed.

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One incredible tree!

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Everything was in bloom in Washington

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Treehouse, a development constructed by Duke in Port Townsend, Washington.

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A house in Langley WA

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Lisa Lanza, Aldo (partially hidden) and Duke.

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A reconstruction of Fort Clatsop, the westernmost point of the expedition. 30 members of the Corps of Discovery were housed here in the winter of 1805.

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Clark (no relation to William Clark of the Corps of Discovery--that I know of) awaits grooming in the town square of Rupert, Idaho, Home of the Town Square.

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The LaRue family plot

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Ann's mom, Marian (r) and her sister Ann at the Rupert, ID cemetary.

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We encountered a grazing moose as we skirted through Yellowstone.

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This is the only spot along the Lewis and Clark trail that one may be sure of standing in the same spot as the explorers.

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Pompey's Pillar

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Custer and the Corps of Discovery shared this site.

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We crossed paths with the Lewis and Clark expedition almost a couple of hundred years later going the opposite direction. It did not pass our notice that their trip took more than two years and our less than two weeks.

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