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Life by Lake Michigan's Left CoastJun 29, 20228:01 PM2022-11-21
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Ghostly Stone, Lake Michigan's Left Coast, lakemichigansleftcoast.com, Elizabeth G Fagan

Ghosts in the Stones

Ghosts in the Stones Lake Michigan reached record low-water levels in January, 2013, creating bountiful beaches on Wisconsin’s shoreline. By Winter, 2014, however, the Lake started rising. By April, 2020, it had risen more than […]

Life by Lake Michigan's Left CoastJun 21, 20226:55 PM2022-10-22
Carboniferous Plant Fossil with Fern, Lake Michigan's Left Coast, lakemichigansleftcoast.com, Elizabeth G Fagan

Carboniferous Fern Fossil

Essays by Lake Michigan's Left CoastJun 9, 20221:05 AM2022-11-03
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Skull of extinct dimetrodon fossilized into chert by Elizabeth G Fagan, lakemichigansleftcoast.com, Lake Michigans Left Coast

Head Up, Shoulders Back

Head Up, Shoulders Back It’s circa 2000s, I am circa 40s, and I’m learning how to walk again. My physical therapist has a keen eye for a hanging head, slouching shoulders, weak abs, a protruding […]

Essays by Lake Michigan's Left CoastJun 2, 202212:37 PM2022-11-20
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Ferns © Elizabeth G Fagan, lakemichigansleftcoast.com, Lake Michigan's Left Coast

Outdoor Edibles

June Little stirs our Wisconsin hearts the way first glimpses of green do each spring. Soon our minds wander to yards, to gardens—and to sojourns in Wisconsin’s wild places. To those who are lucky, careful, […]

Essays by Lake Michigan's Left CoastMay 30, 202212:48 PM2022-11-20
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Horseshoe crabs in the Atlantic, Elizabeth Fagan, Lake Michigans Left Coast

Horseshoe Crabs on Memorial Day

Horseshoe Crabs on Memorial Day As a child summer-vacationing at an Atlantic beach, I discovered horseshoe crabs. They washed up on Maryland’s barrier spit and created spectacles for screeching toddlers. Their bodies were sleek, green, […]

Essays by Lake Michigan's Left CoastMay 20, 20225:46 PM2022-11-20
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Milwaukee River © Elizabeth G Fagan, lakemichigansleftcoast.com, Lake Michigan's Left Coast

Good News for Swearing, Messy, Night Owls

Good News for Swearing, Messy, Night Owls Were you annoyed as a kid when your parents told you to clean your room, sent you to bed early, and scolded you for cursing? There might be […]

Life by Lake Michigan's Left CoastMay 1, 202212:11 PM2022-11-21
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Milkweed Pods, 8x8, by Elizabeth G Fagan, digital art on lakemichigansleftcoast.com, from Lake Michigan's Left Coast

Milkweeds & Monarchs

May Landscaping with Wisconsin native species brings the frugal, time-crunched gardener an array of benefits. With knowledge and a keen eye, a gardener might find low-cost (or no-cost) starter plants. Because native plants evolved in […]

Life by Lake Michigan's Left CoastApr 22, 202212:24 PM2022-11-20
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Heaven, © Elizabeth G Fagan, lakemichigansleftcoast.com, Lake Michigan's Left Coast

Earth Day

April “It was a gamble, but it worked,” recalled Gaylord Nelson, the founder of Earth Day. The late Wisconsin governor and United States senator (D) successfully infused the activism of the late 1960s with such […]

Life by Lake Michigan's Left CoastApr 19, 20221:08 PM2022-11-22
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Permian Amphibian Skull, 280 to 235 million years old, Great Lakes region, North American, © Elizabeth G Fagan, lakemichigansleftcoast.com, Lake Michigan's Left Coast

Permian Amphibian

Permian Amphibian North America’s Great Lakes region was once the bed of an ancient sea. Fossils abound if one knows where and how to look. Paleozoic fossils of many periods regularly wash up on the […]

Essays by Lake Michigan's Left CoastMar 23, 202211:47 AM2022-11-21
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Inaugural Paramount Blues Festival, 20x30, by Elizabeth G Fagan, digital art on lakemichigansleftcoast.com, from Lake Michigan's Left Coast

Paramount Blues

Paramount Blues The founders of Paramount Records knew nothing about the music business. Launched in 1917, the label was simply a subsidiary of Wisconsin Chair Company (WCC) based in Port Washington, Wisconsin. Companies that made […]

Essays by Lake Michigan's Left CoastMar 18, 20221:50 PM2022-11-20
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Martian Chondrite Meteorite, Elizabeth G Fagan, lakemichigansleftcoast.com, Lake Michigans Left Coast

Meteorites & Earth’s Age

Meteorites, Plate Tectonics, & Earth’s Age Meteorites are fascinating relics of a universe in transition. They are also the most important clues for determining Earth’s exact age. One can find meteorites on Great Lakes beaches. […]

Essays by Lake Michigan's Left CoastMar 2, 202210:47 AM2022-11-20
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Invasive Mussels, Lake Michigan, 5x7, by Elizabeth G Fagan, digital art on lakemichigansleftcoast.com, from Lake Michigan's Left Coast

Invaders from Other Ecosystems

March More than two centuries ago, cargo ships released freshwater ballast from the Ural region of Russia into the rivers and lakes of western Europe. That ballast contained tiny striped hitchhikers. In the 1820s, Londoners […]

Life by Lake Michigan's Left CoastFeb 20, 202212:18 PM2022-11-22
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Banded Iron Formation, Lake Michigan's Left Coast, lakemichigansleftcoast.com, Elizabeth G Fagan

Stromatolites

Stromatolites North of the Great Lakes lies the Canadian Shield, a very ancient geologic feature that bears Banded Iron Formation (BIF). Formed 4 to 2.5 billion years ago, BIF is among Earth’s oldest rock formations. […]

Essays by Lake Michigan's Left CoastFeb 9, 202212:53 PM2022-11-22
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Lake Michigan Iceberg © Elizabeth G Fagan, lakemichigansleftcoast.com, Lake Michigan's Left Coast

February @ Lake Michigan’s Left Coast

February @ Lake Michigan’s Left Coast The Great Lakes of North America contain 20 percent of the world’s fresh water. Seventy percent is locked in the ice of Antarctica. All other lakes and ponds and […]

Life by Lake Michigan's Left CoastJan 16, 202212:56 PM2023-01-14
Byron © Elizabeth G Fagan, 8"x8"

Byron

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