Out There Tour

Hey hey hey, I was fortunate to see Paul McCartney on his Out There Tour a few weeks ago.

Sir Paul was cranking out memories at Target Field...

And the crowd loved them...

A few pyrotechnics too

Setlist:

• Eight Days A Week
• Save Us
• All My Loving
• Listen To What The Man Said
• Let Me Roll It
• Paperback Writer
• My Valentine
• Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
• The Long And Winding Road
• Maybe I'm Amazed
• I've Just Seen A Face
• We Can Work It Out
• Another Day
• And I Love Her
• Blackbird
• Here Today
• New
• Queenie Eye
• Lady Madonna
• All Together Now
• Lovely Rita
• Everybody Out There
• Eleanor Rigby
• Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
• Something
• Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
• Band on the Run
• Back in the U.S.S.R.
• Let It Be
• Live And Let Die
• Hey Jude

Encore:

• Day Tripper
• Hi, Hi, Hi
• Get Back

Second Encore:

• Yesterday
• Helter Skelter
• Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End

I really wish he had played "Put it There."  That song has a very special meaning to me, in fact I made a video with it as the theme music. 

Until next time!  -Lee

Mittelaltermarkt at Burg Nohfelden

The keep is the center of the festival

I had a chance to visit this medieval crafts show (market) in Nohfelden this morning.  The town was speckled with canvas tents with camp fires burning, period dressed artisans and dozens of booths that were held together with pegs and rope... no nails or steel hinges for this group!

A very well disciplined hound in medieval attire too... Belle-esque including the collar!

Hard work

For the ladies...

For the gents... I think... sort of looks like the Robin suit in Batman and Robin don't you think?

A carver

and his craftsmanship

A quick spin, hope you all enjoyed the glimpse.  -Lee

A visit to Dahn

Dahn is a beautiful little village in Southern Germany and is surrounded by pine forests and awesome sandstone cliffs.  The area has many wonderful hiking (trekking) trails with beautiful views.

Atop one of the sandstone cliffs is this old cast iron cross

The trails are well marked and most of the trek is under a canopy of mature pines trees.  Very serene.

Trail markers are pretty cool!

Views from the many cliffs are outstanding and make the climbs worth it!

Life is good and its even better when you can share it!

Lots of easy climbs to great views...

and some not so easy climbs to fantastic views...

Sorry for the short post, but I am very busy at the moment.  Ciao,  Lee

Summer has arrived but...

Many greetings for all around the world who stop in and check out what's new on my blog!

The past month and the next two will be very busy for me but I do promise to get in some canoe posts and some under water posts!

I hope and wish the very best for all.       Lee

Double rainbow in Chassell...

A rainy weekend with a really beautiful double rainbow!

Flat transom canoes

Good fortune shined upon me once again as a by chance conversation at the office led me to find this great flat transom canoe. I just returned with this great 'ole canoe!  Let the adventures begin!

An old design but very practical.

I've been searching for a canoe that I could outfit with a spray skirt and motorize to troll for my favorite trout on "no fuel" waterways and lakes... I think this might be the answer. 

The general idea of a spray skirt.  This one's from Classic Outdoors a Saskatoon, SK company.

Lots of room for camping and fishing gear for that fishing trip to some island or remote beach.  But not too heavy for two people to easily portage, and plenty of room for a weekend explore, just pop the spray skirt off and there's lots of space...  The spray skirt in my thinking is mostly for paddling around Lake Superior near river inlets.  Winds can come up and push waves high enough to breach the gunwales.  The skirt makes that more manageable... less cold and therefore more fun!

As it turns out Wisconsin has a lot of great places to do canoe camping. Here's a map of just a few sites...

Canoe camping sites

There are actually dozens more places to go in and around the big W. 

Any suggestions you folks have are always appreciated!  

Lee

Estivant Pines Hike

What a great weekend this was!  Hard to beat the great weather and the beautiful pines. I finally got a chance to make the Estivant Pines hike I've been planning for months now.   Here are a few pics of the pines, many of which are over 400 years old...  and some of the cool things you see along the way.

The Keweenaw Mountain Lodge was built in 1934-35 during the Great Depression - a wonderful throwback to a simpler time.  It has large exposed log beams and vaulted ceilings.

 The "KML" is on the way to the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula where the Estivant Pines are located. I've been wanting to hike this area for months now, but weekends never seemed to work out.  But this weekend was special as really good friend joined me and off we went. 

Here's something you don't see too often... This is sort of a giant visual aid to show how much snow accumulates here each year.  That's accumulated snowfall, so as more snow comes down the snow beneath it compresses, sometimes melts or evaporates... so what is on the ground at any one time is rarely over 4 or 5 feet...

The arrow on the side tracks last years total snowfall in feet.

Here's a better shot of the plaque...

Think, copious amounts of snow... see my driveway post!

Needless to say this part of the peninsula gets a bit of snow.

Em hmm, lots of snow...

Copper Harbor is the nearest city to the Pines, here is a picture of the harbor from the Brockway Mountain Drive.

A beautiful day!

Here are some of the pines...

Two giants mere feet apart, together for hundreds of years...

A seedling around the year 1500...

This tree was standing and swaying in the wind when Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei were making history

One of the more unusual trees...

I will return to the pines to make one more sortie to set eyes on this...

We hiked right up to the swamp... it's not for the faint of heart!

When I get back to the pines and make this trek, I'll be sure to update the post.  We'll see if I can talk her into crossing the swamp and then the river!

Hope you all enjoyed the little hike through this great old woods.