Living in the
Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I am surrounded by natural scenic beauty.
It’s everywhere I turn and I can’t help but feel a bit spoiled and rich.
Lake Superior is only a two- minute walk from my office and my favorite beach a
15-minute drive out of town. I live 30 minutes “in-land” and am blessed
with the opportunity to own property where I can have my gardens, raise
animals, lose myself in the vast magical woods of my backyard, and take my dogs
for long walks on the numerous hiking trails that begin just outside my
door. Wildlife is abundant and although there are others houses that dot
our private road, we enjoy a relative semblance of solitude and privacy.
I spend the
majority of my lunch hours (when I’m not running errands for work or picking up
egg layer crumble at the animal feed store), exploring places that have been my
favorite haunts for more than 20 years in the city where I work but no longer
live. A person can never go wrong spending quality time with Lake
Superior in all her serene and turbulent moods. One of my favorite
hangouts during the past year has been Park Cemetery, a place brimming over
with nature and history located smack dab in the middle of an urban
neighborhood of a small northern town. That place serves to remind me
what I always knew as a kid growing up in a much larger city three hours
south—that nature is all around us and we don’t have to take long day-trips to
the country or state parks to immerse ourselves in it. Nature’s voice can
be drowned out by the traffic and city noise, but she still speaks to us…we
only have to learn how to tune in to a different frequency.
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