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Step into my forests and look around. Stop and smell the cedars and the damp earth. Inhale the fresh breeze blowing the branches into one another. Listen to the squirrels chattering, the woodpeckers attacking dead trees, the partridges whooping and to divert you from their young. Watch the deer and its fawn watching you back before they devour everything green in sight. Check out the endless engineering efforts of the beavers as they hew down trees for their construction projects and dinner.

Is that coyote scat on the fire trail? Glacial erratics jutting out as misplaced boulders in the woods? Loons calling on the lakes? Green-headed mallard drakes and drab mallard females with ducklings paddling along the shore?

Have you seen the progression of undergrowth plants? From skunk cabbage to trout lilies and columbine to lady’s slippers and trilliums to Indian Paintbrush and chickory to Indian Pipe and bracken fern and wintergreen and wild strawberries. Solomon’s Seal and pipestem reeds, cattails and starflowers, yellow clintonia. Wild raspberries and wild roses and tiny sweet blueberries giving way to blackberries and brilliant blue gentians.

The North Woods is a land of woods and water shaped by glaciers many thousands of years ago and kept in a revolving cycle of four dramatic seasons every year. It’s a beautiful land!

Here you’ll find some of the wonder of the North Woods and the Great Lakes as I’ve seen them whilst walking about. Check out more of the Woodswalker designs on cards, clothes and gifts from Woodswalker.

I guess I should also tell you – just in case you hadn’t figured it out! – that my purpose in writing this blog is entertainment and profit. If you follow a link over to a store or product I feature, and if you then buy something, I should get a referral fee. It doesn’t affect the price to you as a reader, but might buy me some pizzas and Diet Coke. Unless you decide to go shopping mad! Feel free! Then I might be able to pay the rent.