A lovely day for a hike - Ely's Peak...

Today, the sun was shining, the birds were singing, and I decided that there had to be better things to do than to hang out on the couch watching football all day. 

Jewels had gone hiking with a friend when I was up north and it was sort of a short cut up to the top of Ely's Peak.. I say a short cut as it was a lot shorter than the route from the rear.. and this route was only a mile... but lotsa climbing...  It got quite warm and the layers were stripped off.. the colors were great... the company was very nice.. and it was a wonderful stroll.

I also figured that if we left early enough, I would be back early afternoon and still get my fill of Sunday NFL football..  Right again!

On the way home, we stopped in at the Enger tower.. colors were so nice.. and always a great view of the City..

 It's probably going to get cooler soon.. perhaps the snow will be falling and we'll be hauling out the snow shoes.. Kind of looking forward to that but a day like today was so nice..

Life is Good

Golfing the courses at Bibwabik MN... two hidden golfing gems

This past weekend Scott and I drove out to Bibwabik which is about 80 miles north of here.  It's really the middle of no-where - home of the Iron Range mining and two great golf courses.  It was cold.. really cold and windy.. but the fall colors were splendid and the company was great. We met up with Tom and a friend of ours from Yellowknife and a marvelous guy, Keane Bushey.

There are two courses in an area called Giant's Ridge.  The land is reclaimed Iron Range mining quarries and they are great courses, challenging.. and too tough for an old guy like me.

Life is Good...

some more fall colors...

A few days ago, I grabbed the camera and did a little drive in the neighborhood.  It' is really awesome to see the colors at this time of year..

The photo above is our street.. the picture is taken right from the front of our house.

The photos above were taken on the way out to Island Lake where Scott has a cabin. Always a pretty drive, winter summer and fall.. Spring... NAAAHHH... to many potholes to navigate!

The pic above is off our back deck.. we are so lucky to have this type of scenery.. on top of Lake Superior... the second largest lake in N. America.  :)

Life is Good.