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Sue what a lovely way to start the week with beautiful colours of the sky? Is that early morning or night when Neil took the pic & is it near where you live? Just curious what is the population in your area.
Thank you, Trish. Neil’s photos are almost always sunset pictures, and yes, it’s taken right in front of our house, which is on a small lake. We live in a sparsely populated area of the US, the eastern tip of the Upper Peninsula of the state of Michigan. In a 100 mile by 100 mile by 100 mile triangle we have about 20,000 people, most of them in the city of Sault Ste. Marie. Our little town has 600 people and we live 12 miles from town.