MARQUETTE — Summertime and the living is easy, fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high,” – George Gershwin Out under the powdery blue morning skies, the sun was already beating down like someone had left the woodstove door wide open. I was surprised at how intently I could feel the ...

By John Pepin Michigan DNR MARQUETTE — “I got shot off my horse. So what? I’m up again playing in one of these big saloons on main,” – Mark Knopfler I found a warm place to sit down where the sun covered the weathered face of a massive and granitic streamside boulder. From ...

MARQUETTE — “Whispered in the sounds of silence,” – Paul Simon And with the door open, there was no sound. Silence can be as unnerving and unexpected as it can be planned for, luxurious, freeing and restorative. It depends on the circumstances. A pregnant pause in an important ...

MARQUETTE — “They’re OK the last days of May,” – Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser With the chokecherry trees, spring beauties and wild strawberries in bloom, May has come and almost gone – already. n a frenetic whirl, out of the gasping death throes of winter, she ushered home ...

MARQUETTE — “I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream,” – Joe T. Babcock And now I go out walking again, barefoot in the wet, muddy places where the cow slips are already set to bloom. Their gloriously bright yellow pedals reflect sunlight onto the bright, green leaves of these ...

MARQUETTE — “Come on the risin’ wind, we’re going up around the bend,” – John Fogerty I have always been interested in the idea of harbingers – indicators or signals of things up the road, coming around the bend – things we can’t see today, maybe not even tomorrow, but ...