We drove up to northern Minnesota to visit the new Ellis-Francis place on Deeryard Lake. On the way up, we drove around the north shore of Lake Superior and saw some beautiful places in Ontario. Lake Superior is very big. The air up there is wonderful to breathe.

Here’s Anne looking at some Ojibway pictographs, on a cliff just above the water line on the east side of Lake Superior. Fortunately, the lake was calm.

Anne looking at Lake Superior near the pictographs, in Superior Provincial Park.

This is a sand hill crane, seen on the drive into Sleeping Giant Provincial Park. We also saw something that looked like a ptarmigan or a spruce grouse, loons and bald eagles. Smaller birds were hard to find.

This outcrop in Sleeping Giant Provincial Park is called the sea lion.

Here’s a mom and baby loon we found on Ravine Lake in Sleeping Giant park. Dad loon was fishing the other side of the lake.

This is Kakabeka Falls, just west of Thunder Bay, Ontario. It was a rainy morning, not ideal for photography. Locals told us an Ojibway “princess” went over these falls while escaping some raiding Sioux, and the Sleeping Giant on the other side of Thunder Bay is her lover waiting for her to come through.

These are the falls on the Cascade River, near Grand Marais, MN.

Two canoes and a cayak rafted up for lunch on Echo Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Left to right: Clayton Francis, Sarah Francis, Ann Ellis, Milton Ellis (looking the other way), Margaret-Ann Ellis and Anne Ellis (peeking over her mother-in-law’s hat). We had to paddle into some stiff winds, but a good time was had by all.