Springs Last Weekend Part 2

Springs Last Weekend

part 2

Duluth Shipping Harbor- this one happens to be the railroad

click on the above photo to get to more steam engines

To get to the North Shore you have to pass through Duluth, then hop on the scenic Highway 61. We had just entered into Duluth when we saw signs saying there was a major delay on 61, which we learned later was due to the famous Grandma's Marathon Race scheduled for that Saturday. We would have to go around, which we did, watching highways turn into gravel roads and even mysteriously ending up where we had started once.

Somehow we made it through the maze without burning too much of the time up, and we did get some great Wild Lupine photos, which had been on our hit-list and would have been missed without the detour, as the ones on 61 had already passed their fleeting prime.

As we saw the Big Blue Beautiful Lake Superior become the horizon, the anticipation heightened; we were minutes away from discovering what our rivers look like after heavy rains, with all-fresh foliage that had been absent in our Spring Thaw Madness marathon shooting.

The first stop was at the Knife River, which appears to be nothing more than a little rest stop from the highway. We had originally gotten a tip that there were falls there, and had already taken photos in the fall and early spring. Both times were when we had a large agenda, so we had not explored everything there was to see there. This time we did.

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