A maple leaf sloshes hither and yon with the gentle oscillations of summertime surf at Lake Superior, engraving temporary trails with points and stem as it slides across the sand. The multicolored grains eroded from nearby ledges of the Jacobsville sandstone formation—a 1.1-billion-year-old rock only found around part of Lake Superior.
1 N Big Bay MI (19 Jul 7) Looking down
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