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A Case of the Human Condition: More Sunset Drama Over Lake Michigan

August 17, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Sunset, Lake Michigan, Union Pier. c 2009 B.F. Newhall
Sunset, Lake Michigan, Union Pier. Photo 2009 by BF Newhall

Another shot of Lake Michigan from the beach at Union Pier, Michigan. This one a few minutes later, as the sun moved behind a cloud.

I’m kind of worried about Lake Michigan: some invasive critters, the quagga mussel and the zebra mussel, are disrupting its ecology.

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Elderly woman with mono. Author and blogger Barbara Falconer Newhall succumbs to mono and curls up with an alpaca blanket for comfort. Photo by Jon Newhall

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