The Liefies

A beautiful pink trillium, taken at the highest point of Washington Island, Door County, WI, in late May, 2008. I saw far fewer of these than I did the white variety.

Door County has a bunch of wineries, most of which make/sell fruit wines as there is a LOT of fruit grown there. Places there also grow their own grapes for grape wine. There is a mildly famous picture of an vineyard in CA in early spring showing the mustard blooms between the barely-getting-started [...]

Washington Island is a large-ish island off the tip of the peninsula that is Door County. It was actually settled before the rest of the peninsula, presumably because the way people got to these parts 150 years ago was by boat. Nowadays, it is an easy ferry ride from the northern tip of [...]