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We're back in WI at Home2. This afternoon, we paddled our canoe upriver from our home. The area is beautiful there--no development, quiet, isolated, and nestled in the National Forest. The river was very rocky and got more and more shallow as we moved further upstream. It might be possible, if the water was a bit higher, to make it all the way up to a smaller connected lake, but we didn't try that this time. There were some wild roses along the way--a special treat for we Iowans, where that particular blossom is our state flower. We plan to do a trip into the BWCA in late August, and we would like to take Josey along. We aren't sure how she will behave in a canoe, where we really need for her to sit still, so sometime in the next few days, we are going to try taking her out with us to see what happens. I don't think I'll have my camera along for that outing.


Last time we were here, we started another project to improve the steps down to the dock. We wanted some way to step off the steps onto the shore. Here you can see what we came up with, along with some flowers that Kathie planted adjacent to the deck. The bench we bought to dress it up works pretty well, but we may need to add a railing, since the front part of the deck still sits up pretty high. It's a start though. What do you think?



Finally, this evening, we were treated to a spectacular arrangement of clouds, reflected sunlight, moon, and a reflection of the entire configuration in the lake. I took lots of pictures trying to get just the right one. This one turned out fairly well, I think.