Well, the prototype for the Yooper Gift Basket is (finally) complete. I really like the way it turned out and hope you do too. Of course, that’s why it is a prototype. It’s really subject to change.

I’ve created a photo set a flickr showing the process of making the Yooper Gift Basket [...]

It’s nice to see Michigan’s Upper Peninsula get some more love from the national media. The only downside? Where’s the love from Michigan’s media in the lower peninsula? We have such a treasure north of the Mackinac Bridge that (in my humble opinion) does not get touted enough.
Anyway, back to the aforementioned [...]

I’m a lower peninsula gardener and I sometimes rush things a bit to see how early I can get stuff growing in the garden. I would fail miserably if I was growing a garden in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
The Ironwood Daily Globe has an article about how residents of the U.P. cope with the much [...]

Coming this April to the Marquette County Historical Museum is an exhibit dedicated to those wonderful souls who call Michigan’s Upper Peninsula home and are affectionately referred to as ‘Yoopers.’ The exhibit will be called “Anatomy of a Yooper.” This appears to be a play on the popular novel “An Anatomy of a [...]

Recently, residents of Delta County in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula have been spotting what appears to be black smoke or dark rain clouds. These “clouds” are made up of billions of Midges, a flying insect that hatches from water. Clouds of Midges will be seen throughout the summer, but the spring seems to be [...]

I just read on The Mining Journal that the northeast turret of Miners Castle at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore broke off and fell into Lake Superior last week. Evidently, the annual freezing and thawing had taken its toll on the crumbling layers sandstone and led to its ultimate demise.
Miners Castle is probably [...]