New Bernie Sanders ad

Young white-tailed deer

Young white-tailed deer outside my bedroom window last weekend. I wonder if it was getting a bit of warmth from the cabin and that's why it slept so close. Bit blurry -- taken through a glass window.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_deer

Oil boom over in North Dakota

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/us/built-up-by-oil-boom-north-dakota-now-has-an-emptier-feeling.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Bernie Sanders ad in Iowa

Mute swan

This afternoon we saw two mute swans at Jackson Harbor Yacht Club and here is one of them:
http://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/mute-swan

Photo: Marge Ishmael

The Third Coast

Walking the dog by Lake Michigan today and watching the waves out on the lake. I suppose this is why they refer to the Great Lakes as the Third Coast:

Photo: Marge Ishmael

The missing whales

https://www.thedodo.com/whales-annual-trip--1538944738.html