Another day of archive photos that can’t decide if it’s Spring or not in mid April. We start off today with a welcomed sight just north of Gay, where Elenore Hopf shared a photo in 2003, of someone fishing under the Tobacco River bridge. Sure looks nice to see the river opened UP and rushing so quickly to the Big Lake.

Joyce Tormala was on the shores of Lake Superior in 2010, where she found piles of Superior rocks moved and formed into that mound by the ice and waves moving in and out, over and over during the Spring thaw. That shows some of the power Lady Superior possesses to move the shoreline rocks that much.

Back to winter on this date in 2014. We had been the recipients of over 19” of snow then, too and Joy Ziemnick spotted this snow lady frozen in place while waiting for some decent hot tub weather. She looks prepared with her shades on in case the sun makes an appearance and her towel by her side. She does seem to be missing several body parts to which Shirley Waggoner (RIP) pointed out back then, that she didn’t know Venus De Milo was a Yooper!

Jumping ahead to the here and now, I don’t know what the final total of the snowstorm we had this past weekend ended up being, but I’m guessing we had at least as much as the 19” four years ago. We have a photo from the folks at Copper World in Calumet. The Village crew was busy clearing all those inches of snow off 5th Street, so shoppers could make their way in to Copper World to check out all the Yooper items on hand there.

The video today takes us back to the Tobacco River in the Spring of 2015. Jim Curtis was there capturing the sights and sounds of the river rushing on to Lake Superior with the Spring runoff.

Good look'n video!

I sure love that first picture and my hubby would
like to be the guy there fishing it. He hasn't
had any luck there but that doesn't prevent him
from trying. Great video, too.

The Spring run off always makes for high water and
picturesque waterfalls. In 2003 we were making a
late Spring tour of the UP checking out the
waterfalls when we ran into dozens of emergency
personnel in Marquette. We thought it was a drill
until we found out that recent rainfall and the
Spring runoff had burst the Silver Lake dam. That
changed the landscape forever in some places.

What an amazing winter we've had! Still lots of
snow and ice on the satellite images! It's melting
fast, though.