Dynamic Great Lakes

What you wanted to know about the Great Lakes.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

A Walk on the Sand: Lake Michigan

Posted by Barbara Spring at 4:27 PM

Labels: herring gull, Lake Michigan beach, pier

No comments:

Dynamic Great Lakes

Search This Blog

Labels

; The Dynamic Great Lakes non-fiction book (29)
. (1)
$7 billion (1)
37 nuclear power plants in the Great Lakes basin (8)
4th of July (1)
acoustic music (1)
activists (1)
after storms (1)
agates (3)
Agawa (1)
Al Gore (1)
Alan Steinman (1)
alcohol (1)
alewife (1)
alewives (2)
algae (2)
Alpena (2)
alternative energy (2)
alvar (5)
Amazon (3)
Amazon author page (4)
Amazon.com (2)
Amazon's Kindle reader (1)
American bald eagle (15)
American eel (1)
anadramous fish (1)
ancient life forms (2)
ancient rocks (1)
Annis Water Resources Institute (3)
Apostle Islands (1)
April 19 (1)
April winds Between Sweetwater and Sand (2)
arbor vitae (1)
archipelago (1)
areas of concern (2)
Art Hop (1)
asian carp (3)
Atlantic Ocean (1)
author's page (1)
Autumal Equinox (1)
available on Kindle (1)
Baha Mexico (1)
Barbara Spring (29)
Barbara Spring bio (2)
bass (1)
beach combing (2)
beach grass (2)
beaches (4)
bears (1)
Beaver Island (1)
beech trees (1)
best price (2)
Between Sweetwater and Sand (3)
biking (1)
bio (1)
biophilia (1)
bird watching (2)
birding (1)
birds (2)
bloodroot (1)
blue marlin (1)
board sailing (2)
boating (5)
boats (1)
book (4)
book reviews (5)
Bookman Bookstore in Grand Haven MI (2)
books (1)
Books a Million (1)
Books by Barbara Spring (3)
books etc. (1)
Bopi Biddanda (1)
bottled water (1)
boundary U.S. Canada (2)
BP (1)
breakwater (1)
Brian Stephens (1)
Bridgeman Michigan (1)
brown trout (3)
Bruce hiking trail (3)
Bruce Peninsula (8)
Buffalo New York (1)
bullfrogs (1)
calcium carbonate (1)
camping (1)
Canada (5)
Canada streams (1)
Canadian trash (1)
cardinals (1)
Carl Levin (1)
Caspian tern (1)
caterpillar (1)
catwalk (1)
caution (1)
cedar (1)
changes in the Great Lakes system (2)
Charlevoix (1)
chart (4)
chart Lake St. Clair and delta (2)
chart of Great Lakes (1)
Chicago (1)
chickadees (1)
chikadee (1)
Chinook salmon (9)
Chippewa legend (1)
Christmas idea (1)
City Marina (1)
climate change (1)
CMU (1)
coal tar (1)
Coast Guard Rescue (1)
coastal wetlands (2)
coaster brook trout (1)
coho salmon (8)
Columbia River (2)
Congress (1)
conservation (5)
Cook Nuclear Power plant (2)
copepod (2)
copper (4)
cottages undermined (1)
cougar (1)
creativity (1)
critically acclaimed (4)
critically acclaimed. (1)
cub scouts Spring Lake MI (1)
cynobacteria (1)
danger (2)
danger of spill (1)
Dave Dempsey (4)
Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station (2)
DDT (7)
Death's Door (1)
Debbie Stabenow (1)
deer (1)
democratic process (3)
depths (2)
Detroit (1)
Detroit Free Press (1)
Detroit River (2)
diporeia (2)
diversions (2)
diving (1)
Door Peninsula (9)
downy woodpecker (1)
Dr. George Wallace (1)
Dr. Howard Tanner (1)
drinking water (2)
drone video (1)
ducks (1)
Duluth (1)
Duluth Minnesota (1)
dune ecology (3)
dunes (2)
Dutch men (1)
Dutchmans Breeches (1)
e book (1)
eagles (2)
Earth Day (5)
ecology (1)
ecology food chains (2)
ecosystem (1)
ecosystems (1)
Edmund Fitzgerald (3)
eggs (2)
Enbridge (1)
energy (2)
energy solutions (1)
Entergy (1)
environment (1)
environmental activism (3)
environmental agreement (1)
environmental education (3)
environmental success story (3)
Eos (1)
EPA (3)
epiphany (1)
erosion (1)
Estivant Pines (1)
exploiters (1)
fall (1)
fall turnover in Great Lakes (1)
February beach (1)
feed the birds (1)
finger nail clam shells (1)
fish (2)
fish food (1)
fishing (22)
fishing in Lake Erie (3)
fishing industry (1)
five Great Lakes (4)
Flower Pot Island (3)
flowers (1)
food chains (1)
food webs (1)
fossils (5)
fragile ecosystems (1)
freep (1)
fresh surface water (3)
fresh water (2)
freshwater (16)
freshwater delta (1)
freshwater seas (5)
freshwatersystem (4)
frogs (2)
frozen (1)
geese (2)
geology (1)
geology of the Great Lakes (3)
Georgian Bay (4)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1)
Gillette Nature CenterGenevive Gillette (1)
glaciers (2)
GLEAM (1)
global (1)
global warming (4)
GLRI (1)
goby (1)
Google Earth (1)
Gordon Lightfoot (2)
Grand Haven (8)
Grand Haven beach (8)
Grand Haven beach in winter (2)
Grand Haven light (1)
Grand Haven MI (5)
Grand Haven MI beach (1)
Grand Haven pier (6)
Grand Haven State Park (1)
Grand Island (1)
Grand Marais (2)
Grand Portage Minnesota (1)
Grand River (8)
Grand River mouth (1)
Grand Sable Dunes (1)
Grand Traverse (1)
Grand Valley State University (5)
Grandville (1)
Grassy Island (1)
graveyard of Great Lakes (1)
Great Lake map (2)
Great Lake poetry (1)
Great Lakes (42)
Great Lakes basin (4)
Great Lakes beaches (1)
Great Lakes book (1)
Great Lakes currents (3)
Great Lakes ecosystem (2)
Great Lakes fishes (6)
Great Lakes fishing (10)
Great Lakes food chains (1)
Great Lakes freshwater system (7)
Great lakes from space (2)
Great Lakes ice formation (9)
Great Lakes map (1)
Great Lakes nuclear power poem (3)
Great Lakes oil drilling (1)
Great Lakes plankton (1)
Great Lakes Poetry (2)
Great Lakes pollution (1)
Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy (1)
Great Lakes research (5)
great lakes restoration (1)
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (1)
Great Lakes rip currents (3)
Great Lakes satellite map (4)
Great Lakes swimming (4)
Great Lakes system (2)
Great Lakes vacations (2)
Great Lakes water levels (2)
Great Lakes watersheds map (3)
Great Lakes weather (1)
Great Lakes wetlands (4)
Great Lakes. (1)
green activity (1)
green book (4)
greenstone (3)
ground water (1)
Gulf of St. Lawrence (1)
h20 podcast (1)
H2O podcast (2)
habitat (1)
Hat Point (1)
hawks (1)
hearing (1)
hematite (1)
Henry Chandler Cowles (2)
herring gull (6)
high winds (2)
hikes (1)
hiking trail (2)
Hoffmaster State Park (5)
Home Depot (1)
how to catch (1)
how to escape (1)
Howard Tanner (1)
http://www.freewebs.com/barbaraspring/poetry (1)
ice (6)
Ice Age (1)
ice caves (1)
ice formation (1)
ice on Great Lakes (1)
ice poem (1)
ice ridges (1)
IJC (2)
Indiana (1)
insects (1)
invasive species (2)
invasive species. (3)
Irish (1)
isbn 978-1-4512-7042-6 (1)
Isle Royale (6)
Isle Royale redfin lake trout (3)
Jaques Cartier (1)
Joan Wolfe (2)
John F. Kennedy (1)
Jon Bon Jovi (1)
Kalamazoo River (1)
kayaking (2)
Kelleys Island glacial grooves (2)
Keweenaw Peninsula (1)
Kindle (3)
Kindle edition (2)
Kindle reader (1)
King salmon (8)
Kingston (1)
Kitchel-Lindquist Dunes Ferrysburg (2)
kite boarding (4)
kite festival (2)
kite flying (1)
lake effect snow (2)
Lake Erie (14)
Lake Guardian (1)
Lake Huron (21)
Lake Huron sink holes (4)
lake levels (3)
Lake Michigan (72)
Lake Michigan beach (8)
Lake Michigan fishing (5)
Lake Michigan photos (3)
Lake Michigan pier (6)
Lake Michigan sand (1)
Lake Michigan shore ice (1)
Lake Michigan sunset (4)
Lake Michigan the Dynamic Great Lakes (1)
Lake Ontario (12)
Lake St. Clair (1)
Lake St. Clair landsat (1)
Lake Superior (35)
Lake Superior shores (2)
lake trout (4)
lamprey eels (2)
late afternoon (1)
license extended (1)
light house (1)
light houses of the Great Lakes (1)
Lighthouse (2)
lighthouses (1)
limestone (6)
Line 5 (1)
links (1)
living waters (1)
Look Inside Amazon.com (1)
loon (1)
loons (5)
love of nature (1)
lower Great Lakes (2)
Ludington (1)
luna moth (1)
Mackinac Bridge (4)
Mackinac Island (4)
mallad ducks (1)
mammoth (1)
Manistee River (1)
manitou (1)
map (3)
maps (1)
marine debris (1)
Mark Lamm (1)
marked trails (1)
marketing as food fish (1)
marram grass (3)
mastodon (1)
mastodont (2)
may fly (2)
mercury (2)
MI (1)
MIchigan (3)
Michigan Pesticides Council (1)
Michigan wine (1)
Michipicten Island (1)
microbeads (2)
migrating birds (2)
migrations (1)
milkweed (1)
milt (2)
Minnesota (1)
model of oil (1)
monarch butterflies (1)
moon (1)
moose (8)
Mormon (1)
MSU (3)
Munising (2)
Muskegon Harbor (2)
Muskegon lighthouse (1)
Muskegon River (1)
NASA (1)
NASA photo of Great Lakes (1)
NASA population centers Great Lakes (1)
National Geographic (1)
National Parks (1)
Native American legend of Great Turtle (1)
Native American legends (1)
nature (1)
Nestle (1)
new edition (1)
new Great Lakes information (1)
Niagara escarpment (1)
Niagara Falls (7)
Niagara River (3)
Nipigon Bay (1)
NOAA (8)
NOAA wind chart (1)
non fiction (1)
non fiction book (4)
non-fiction book (3)
Norm Spring (6)
Norman Goldman (1)
North Manitou Island (1)
North Shore (1)
northern Michigan (1)
November storms (1)
NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing (1)
nuclear power (3)
nuclear power plants in the Great Lakes basin (1)
nuthatch (1)
offshore wind power (1)
Ohio (1)
oil (3)
oil leak (1)
oil pipeline (3)
oil pipelines (2)
oil spills (1)
Ojibwa indians (1)
omnivore (1)
Ontario (3)
osprey (3)
ospreys (1)
outdoor learning (1)
owls (1)
Pacific salmon (8)
paddle boarding (1)
paleo Indians (1)
Palisades Nuclear Power Plant (6)
pancake ice (1)
partridge (1)
pastel of wetland (1)
perch (1)
perch walleye (1)
Pere Marquette River (1)
peregrin falcons (1)
peregrination (1)
peregrine falcon (2)
peregrine falcons (5)
petition (1)
pheremones (1)
photo (1)
photo snow Grand Haven Pier (1)
photos (2)
Pictured rocks (2)
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (1)
pier (4)
pileated woodpecker (1)
pineal eyes (1)
pink salmon (2)
Pinook (1)
piping plover (3)
Pirates Great Lakes Chicago Wisconsin (1)
Pitcher's thistle (1)
plankton (1)
planted fish (2)
plants (1)
plastic (1)
playing (1)
plutonium (3)
podcast (1)
poem (4)
poems (2)
poetry (3)
poetry month (1)
poetry reading (2)
poetry Sophia's Lost and Found: Poems of Above and Below (1)
pollution (3)
pollution in Great Lakes (7)
power poles (1)
President Obama (1)
Presquile (1)
price lowered; The Dynamic Great Lakes non-fiction book (4)
Professor Flanders (1)
profile of Great Lakes (1)
profile of lakes (2)
protest poem (2)
public comment (1)
public reources (1)
pumpkinseed (1)
purple loosestrife (2)
pussy willow (1)
quagga mussels (3)
quartz (2)
Rachel Carson (2)
radiation (1)
rain barrel (1)
rain garden (1)
rainbow (1)
rainfall (1)
rare (1)
red flag (1)
red fox (1)
red maple (1)
redfin lake trout (1)
regatta Lake Michigan (2)
register (1)
relief map of Great Lakes (2)
reliefmap (1)
repairs (1)
reptiles (1)
research vessel (1)
restaurant waste oil (1)
return of eagles (3)
Rev. Wm. Ferry (1)
reviews of The Dynamic Great Lakes (1)
Robin Spring (2)
rock paintings (1)
rocks (1)
Rosy Mound (1)
rough winter (1)
round gobies (1)
sacred (1)
Saginaw Bay (1)
sail boarding (1)
sail boat regattas (1)
sailing (3)
salmon (8)
Salmon Festival (1)
sand castles (3)
sand dune (6)
sand dunes (5)
sand piper (1)
sand sculptures (2)
sandy beach (2)
Sargasso Sea (1)
sassafras (1)
satellite picture of Great Lakes system (1)
satellitemap (1)
Saturn (1)
sea gull (1)
sea level (1)
Sea of Cortez (1)
Seagrant (1)
seagull (1)
sedimentary rock (1)
selling Great Lakes water (1)
September (1)
Shenehon (1)
shipping (4)
shipwrecks (3)
shore ice (1)
shore Lake Michigan (1)
shoreline Lake Michigan (1)
Sibley Peninsula (1)
Silent Spring (4)
singing sand (3)
singing sands (3)
sinkholes (1)
skyline (1)
slate colored junco (1)
Sleeping Bear Dune (2)
slippery pier (2)
Smitty (1)
smolts (1)
snail (1)
Snake River (1)
snow (2)
snow fence (1)
snow fence Lake Michigan (2)
snow melt (1)
Sophia's Lost and Found (6)
Sophia's Lost and Found: Poems of Above and Below (5)
South Manitou Island (3)
spawning (2)
sport fishing (1)
sports (2)
st (1)
St. Clair River (2)
St. James Marina (1)
St. Lawrence River (3)
St. Mary's River (2)
St. Marys Challenger (1)
stars (1)
steelhead (8)
steelhead trout (4)
Steelheaders (3)
Steve Damstra (1)
storage (1)
straits of mackinac (1)
Straits of Mackinac flow (2)
Strang (1)
stressors (1)
sturgeon (5)
succession (1)
suet cake (1)
sulfide mining (1)
Summer Solstice (1)
summer time (1)
sun (1)
sunflower (1)
sunset sail (1)
Superior shores (1)
Surf's Up On the Great Lakes (1)
surfing (1)
swan (4)
swans (1)
sweetwater seas (1)
swimming (1)
teleconference Upper Great Lakes levels (1)
tern (2)
The Dynamic Great Lakes (28)
The Dynamic Great Lakes non-fiction book (43)
the Trace (1)
the Trace Duo (1)
The Wilderness Within (10)
thermoclines (1)
thimble berries (1)
thimbleberries (1)
threat to freshwater (1)
Thunder Bay (1)
Thunder Bird (1)
tightrope (1)
toads (1)
Toronto (1)
trading post (1)
tributaries (1)
trout (1)
tufted titmouse (1)
tuna (1)
U.S. (1)
U.S. Canada Great Lakes Commission (1)
U.S. China Europe (1)
underneath Great Lakes (1)
upper Great Lakes (1)
veerys (1)
venison (1)
Venus (1)
video (6)
video of Great Lakes (1)
video of Great Lakes research (1)
videos (1)
vineyard (1)
vitamin C (1)
Wallenda (1)
walleye (2)
walleye fishing (1)
Wanted Dead or Alive (1)
warblers (1)
warming climate (1)
water (1)
water color painting (7)
water color paintings (1)
water flow (1)
water levels Great Lakes (2)
watercolor (1)
watercolor Great Lakes (3)
watercolor of climax forest (2)
watercolor painting (3)
watercolor painting Barbara Spring (1)
waterfalls (1)
watersheds (1)
waxwings (1)
weather (2)
weather and Great Lakes; The Dynamic Great Lakes (1)
weather bomb (2)
Welland Canal (1)
West Michigan (6)
West Michigan dunes (2)
West Michigan shore ice (2)
wetlands (1)
where to buy (2)
white cedar (2)
white fish (1)
White Lake (1)
white pines (1)
whitefish (1)
Whitefish Point (1)
WIIN (1)
wild weather (1)
wilderness (1)
wildflowers (1)
wildlife (3)
Wildlife Refuge Map (1)
wind (2)
wind power turbines (1)
wind sports (1)
Windsor (1)
Winter Solstice (1)
Wisconsin (5)
witch tree (3)
Wm. Milliken (1)
wolves (7)
wood duck (2)
wooded dunes (2)
yang yin (1)
youtube (1)
zebra mussel (1)
zebra mussels (3)

About Me

Barbara Spring: I wrote features for the Grand Rapids Press, taught writing at Grand Valley State University, and I have been married for over 60 years. We have two daughters, five grandchildren and one great grandchild. They are our greatest joy.

View my complete profile

Blog Archive

► 2022 (5)
- ► March (2)
- ► February (1)
- ► January (2)

► 2021 (6)
- ► August (1)
- ► April (2)
- ► March (2)
- ► February (1)

► 2020 (3)
- ► January (3)

► 2019 (9)
- ► June (2)
- ► May (3)
- ► April (3)
- ► January (1)

► 2018 (12)
- ► October (2)
- ► July (1)
- ► June (1)
- ► May (2)
- ► April (3)
- ► March (2)
- ► February (1)

► 2017 (26)
- ► December (3)
- ► September (2)
- ► August (4)
- ► July (6)
- ► May (1)
- ► April (2)
- ► March (2)
- ► February (4)
- ► January (2)

► 2016 (31)
- ► December (3)
- ► November (4)
- ► October (3)
- ► September (4)
- ► August (1)
- ► July (2)
- ► June (2)
- ► May (1)
- ► April (5)
- ► March (2)
- ► February (1)
- ► January (3)

► 2015 (22)
- ► November (2)
- ► October (2)
- ► September (2)
- ► July (2)
- ► June (1)
- ► May (2)
- ► April (3)
- ► March (2)
- ► February (2)
- ► January (4)

► 2014 (30)
- ► December (2)
- ► November (3)
- ► October (2)
- ► September (1)
- ► August (1)
- ► July (6)
- ► June (3)
- ► May (4)
- ► March (2)
- ► February (4)
- ► January (2)

► 2013 (41)
- ► December (1)
- ► November (3)
- ► October (1)
- ► September (5)
- ► August (6)
- ► June (5)
- ► May (4)
- ► April (3)
- ► March (4)
- ► February (4)
- ► January (5)

► 2012 (69)
- ► December (3)
- ► November (2)
- ► October (2)
- ► September (10)
- ► August (5)
- ► July (7)
- ► June (8)
- ► May (9)
- ► April (3)
- ► March (7)
- ► February (8)
- ► January (5)

► 2011 (86)
- ► December (2)
- ► November (7)
- ► October (7)
- ► September (2)
- ► August (11)
- ► July (8)
- ► June (9)
- ► May (6)
- ► April (6)
- ► March (8)
- ► February (9)
- ► January (11)

► 2010 (84)
- ► December (4)
- ► November (9)
- ► October (7)
- ► September (7)
- ► August (11)
- ► July (6)
- ► June (15)
- ► May (2)
- ► April (8)
- ► March (5)
- ► February (5)
- ► January (5)

▼ 2009 (73)
- ▼ December (9)
- ► November (9)
- ► October (9)
- ► September (6)
- ► August (21)
- ► July (14)
- ► June (4)
- ► May (1)

Ethereal theme. Powered by Blogger.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

A Walk on the Sand: Lake Michigan

No comments:

Post a Comment