Hot cocoa, tea, and treats are available in the afternoons and evenings. We are well into summer of 2001. The summer has been warm and chilly, rainy and dry. The perennial flowers are doing very well this year, and many are in full bloom. The lupine are just finishing blooming, as are the lilacs closer to Lake Superior.
Birds are everywhere.
Red-eyed vireos are often heard. The Hermit thrush and Veeries call regularly in the evenings and mornings. Chickadees are nesting, and a fresh batch of Nuthatches and Evening grosbeaks have appeared. White-tail deer fawn have been seen several times in the yard. Their presence is also noticeable in the nipped off plants here and there.