Between Sweetwater and Sand a book of poems by Barbara Spring

Between Sweetwater and Sand

A book of poems to honor Mother Earth.

Canada's Stand Against Bottled Water.

Nestle depleting ground water  Canada is taking a stand against Nestle and their bottled water.  In Michigan water drawn from aquifers and sending it out of the watershed bottle by bottle is affecting streams and ultimately, the Great Lakes.  Nestle is sucking the water that belongs to watersheds for their own gain  at the loss for all of us.

The Great Lakes Rock

The Great Lakes Rock

From the round surf-polished rocks of Lake Superior’s shore to the sand dunes of Lake Michigan, I have roamed and picked up stones: agates, pudding stones and some bearing copper or fossils.  And I hiked the alvars on the Door Peninsula and Ontario’s Bruce with their layered limestone shores bearing fossils of ancient salt seas.   Lake Huron’s green waters pour into Lake St. Clair and its silty marshes and then to Lake Erie teeming with birds and fish. The waters pick up speed in the Niagara River to take a tremendous plunge over Niagara Falls.  The rock underlying the falls will wear away in time I am told, but not in my life time.  Lake Ontario’s flat shores have good soil for vineyards and farm lands.  Sailors and sports fishers enjoy Lake Ontario’s riches and the lake flows out through the St. Lawrence River with a myriad rocky islands. 

pictured are layers of limestone on Wisconsin's Door Peninsula. This formation is called an alvar.

Oil and Water Do Not Mix

Oil pipeline under straits of Mackinac  click the link for a new documentary about Enbridge's old pipeline that is endangering the freshwater of the Great Lakes.