Door County - Day 2

Pat and I headed north on Friday -- Sister Bay, Ellison Bay, bay bay bay. Oh, and also Gills Rock and Northport. The Ellison Bluff was pretty dramatic - so dramatic it was hard to get a good still photo of it. So -- here's a video! It's still tough to convey just how high you are and what an incredible vista you see. I've found it difficult to capture a lot of sights that you think should make great pictures -- those birch trees gleaming white back in the dark recesses of the forest, the wild turkeys and deer that just blend right into the woods (gee - do you suppose they planned it that way?). I'm beginning to understand why whenever we see a group of Japanese tourists they won't take a picture of anything without one of their companions included. That is about the only way I can get a photo of interest, it seems. But that won't stop me from trying to get that great "art" photo. Just be patient. I'm working on panoramas -- one of these days...

In Ellison we stopped at a nice photography gallery, the David Frykman Studio Gallery. I bought this photograph by Heather Frykman in a 4x6 (inch) print (no mat) called The Road to Northport, although the framed 10x15 double matted to 16x20 was incredibly nice (and -- quite a bit more expensive!). We drove past the spot where this picture was taken and I thought I saw a photo there. The Door Bluff Headlands County Park was a bit of a bust. "Unimproved" is putting it mildly -- for serious hikers only. Not much at Northport other than the ferry to Washington Island, which several people have told us is also nothing to write home about. One person said there was another ferry from Washington Island over to the Rock Island lighthouse and that was worth the time. Maybe next time...

Near Newport State Park (didn't go in -- another one for next time) we stopped at Uncle Tom's Newport School Candies. The candy is good and the Uncle Tom's story is also interesting...

And then -- the most important part of the day -- lunch! After several dead ends and u-turns we finally found Fred and Fuzzy's Waterfront Bar and Grill, "waterfront" being the operative part of their name. Food was good, drinks were good (cherry margaritas!) and, well, we were on the waterfront as you can see. There was also Wisconsin's version of a beach and I finally got some birches involved in a picture!

For more pictures from Friday, click here.

The performance "du jour" was at the American Folklore Theater. The show we saw was Main Travelled Roads and it was a world premier production. Got off to kind of a slow start but it picked up speed pretty quickly. You were soon rooting for the heroes and damning the bad guys. This play won the 2007 Richard Rogers Award for new musicals and was really a surprise. Kind of a cross between Stephen Sondheim and -- Rogers and Hammerstein! See it if you have a chance...

A little storm this evening. About a quarter inch of rain. Temperatures still in the 70's -- almost like summer according to the locals. We'll take it...