I bundled up with layers including: tights, pant liners and and a thermal shirt as well as warm boots with a couple pairs of socks. I put on a long coat, a big fake fur hat as well a chopper mittens lined with wool mittens and drudged down to Leif Erikson Park. It was below zero degrees Fahrenheit. I was really hoping  there would be a ship lurking behind the ice fog, but there wasn’t. I will see if I can wake up early and force myself out of my warm house tomorrow morning to see if I can capture an image of a ship with sea fog rising around it.

Well, I just checked Duluth Shipping News and I don’t think there will be a ship in the morning.

This train, most likely full of tourists, chugged along through Leif Erikson Park on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Residents all around the Hillside  and out to Lakeside can here the train whistle. It adds charm to the neighborhoods.

This is possibly the Scenic Train Fall Color Tour. The   Superior Trails website says: The last weekend in September and the first weekend in October, the North Shore Scenic Railway and the Lake Superior Railroad Museum sponsor a special color train between Duluth and Two Harbors, Mn.

We are having warm July days. Nice time to sit by the lake and watch the ships come in.

Kirby and Cathy Wood are members of the Arrowhead Chapter of the Wild Ones, gardeners who promote the planting  of native plants and natural landscaping.  Here they stand near the club’s demonstration garden in Lief Erickson Park during the Respect Your Mother festival . The president of both the Duluth club and of the National club is Carol Andrews. If you wonder about joining or starting a chapter please look here.

Cathy Wood says this garden in Leif Erickson Park show people what can be done with natural habit and how it can bring back native insects, birds, plants caterpillars and butterflies .