Kathy Drue / Lake Superior Spirit
The woods of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
One of our favorite bloggers, Kathy Drue writes about life in Michigan's Upper Peninsula at Lake Superior Spirit. In September she answered the question, "What is it like to live in the woods?"
Barry and I ... headed north, north, north to the woods. We drove more than five hundred miles north of those corn fields [near Detroit] and settled in the north woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula back in the late 1970′s. The land of trees and more trees and, yes, more trees.
We bought thirteen acres of wooded forest, cutting down poplar and maple to create a meandering driveway. A gruff neighbor (who just died this summer at the age of 90) took pity on us newcomers and offered to bulldoze in a “real” driveway.
We built a small cedar-sided house in between trees. A large sprawling spruce was our nearest neighbor. I like to call it our “Little House in the Big Woods” after the Laura Wilder Ingalls books which I devoured in childhood. Laura grew up in the big woods and later moved to the prairie, kind of the opposite of my path, but she was still inspiring because she evoked the pioneer spirit, the spirit of discovering something new.
Kathy has lived with her husband, Barry, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, between Marquette and Houghton, for more than 30 years now. She lives a quarter mile from the Huron Bay, five miles from the Keweenaw Bay, and blogs about whatever her heart desires, which includes just about everything.
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