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Sunset at Duluth’s north pier lighthouse, 21 March, 2026. Photo by Glenn Blaszkiwicz.
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#GreatLakes
#LakeSuperior
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Brian Jopek 2d ago

If I didn’t know better, I’d say Nubs and Gizmo wanna go out ondeck with me for some tunes, hot tea and a little Maker’s Mark Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey this fine Saturday night. Can’t say as I blame em; beautiful end of a 61 degree day up here a week after all the “blizzard” shit.
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#Caturday
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Brian Jopek Feb 10

I’m fairly certain I’ve been by this one a time or two; just down the road a bit in Wittenberg, Wisconsin, 8 February, 2026. Photo by Heidi Fleurant.
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Brian Jopek Jun 11, 2025

Strawberry moon over the harbor light at Two Harbors on the north shore of Lake Superior, 10 June, 2025. Photo by Ken Harmon.
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#LakeSuperior
#Minnesota
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Brian Jopek May 4, 2025

Out on deck this evening, all three of my Howard Miller clocks, including my grandfather clock, having chimed 8 o’clock “Chicago time” (as my grandma and grandpa J used to refer to it after they moved to Harbert, Michigan, from Chicago in 1968). It’s a nice evening here in this little corner of northern Wisconsin.
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#SomeEveningSounds

Brian Jopek May 3, 2025

A Northern Saw-Whet Owl in Minnesota, 2 May, 2025. Photo by MN Owl Tours.
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“It took me 35 days of searching to finally find this one. I didn't give her a name, I gave her a number. She was #1 of 5.

#1 had already been in her home roost for weeks by the time I found her. 15+ pellets were below her tree, and a giant puddle of white wash too. She decided to stay there another 116 days in a row after.” - MN Owl Tours

Brian Jopek Sep 26, 2024

One helluva rare blonde raccoon in an Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, forest, 25 September, 2024. Photo by Jeremy Surguy.
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Brian Jopek Sep 22, 2024

An early Sunday evening road jam: the first sunset of autumn, 2024, as seen on U.S. Highway 45 north of Antigo, Wisconsin, is shaping up nicely.
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#ClassicRock
#RunWithThePack
#Sunsets
#NorthernWayLife

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Brian Jopek Aug 26, 2024

A change of pace out here on deck. There’s a couple owls in yonder tree line that don’t seem to mind. I know I don’t.
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#ClassicalMusic
#NorthernWayLife

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Brian Jopek May 26, 2024

A couple evening shots from up nort’, one is South Trout Lake in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, I grabbed on my way to cover a town board meeting for the newspaper and the sunset shot is Lake Minocqua, Minocqua, Wisconsin, 25 May, 2021.
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