Drink Better Coffee

Cold. Dark. Wet. Early spring in the Rockies. This is when only the finest of fuels will do to help inspire the activity of the moment. I like many others turn the magical coffee bean.  And well, the guys at Black Coffee roast a great bean. Once you've tasted some quality roasted, fresh beans, you'll never go back to the swill you've been choking down. Life's too short to drink bad coffee.

Lights Over Marquette

One of the things that I miss the most about living back in Marquette is being able to see the Northern Lights several times a year. The recent solar storms provided some stellar viewing back in the UP. Here's a great clip from a couple nights ago.

EDIT*
The video i had linked to showing the aurora lighting up the Marquette sky, was for whatever reason removed from Vimeo.
So....here's a fun little clip from the same Aurora display a bit further south, in the NW corner of lower MI.
enjoy.

The Tongass

via  The Tongass
At nearly 17 million acres, the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska is our country’s largest and most unique national forest. This magnificent landscape of western hemlock, Sitka spruce, western red cedar and yellow cedar trees is part of the world’s largest remaining intact temperate rain forest – and hosts some of the rarest ecosystems on the planet. The Tongass comprises thousands of mist-covered islands, deep fjords, tidewater glaciers and soggy muskegs that provide ideal habitat for a vast array of wild plant and animal species, including healthy salmon and trout populations. According to the U.S. Forest Service, the Tongass includes roughly 17,000 miles of clean, undammed creeks, rivers and lakes that provide optimal spawning and rearing conditions for the region’s copious wild Pacific salmon and trout. Each year, abundant wild salmon runs return from the ocean to Tongass streams to spawn and die. In this process, these fish bring nutrients from the productive North Pacific Ocean to the much less nutrient-rich land. Because Tongass ecosystems are sustained by the annual salmon returns, the Tongass is literally a “salmon forest.”

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Today Did Not Suck

Temps in the mid 50's and bluebird all day.
If you can't have pow, it might as well be sunny and warm.