So Tim’s girlfriend, Jess, came up to visit this weekend. She endured 32 hours on a bus round trip to make it, so that was phenomenal of her.

She got here early Thursday morning (~6am) and immediately went to bed. (I can’t blame her, I’d been up since 5 to take Rae to the airport and then crawled back in once she got here.) Thursday afternoon we drove down to the Porkies to see the Lake of the Clouds. It was incredibly pretty and Jess was nice enough to pose a little for me.

Friday wasn’t as busy, we had dinner (Japanese food) and Yuta was over (a friend of Tim’s from JCMU).

Then we headed out to Misery Bay hoping to catch the Northern Lights, but the cloud cover had other plans.

Saturday turned into a bit of a nasty day, but since Jess really wanted to see Brockway Mountain, we piled into a car and headed up to Copper Harbor. Quite a bit of the land was shrouded in fog, but it made for some cool pictures.

On the way down, Jess wanted to stop and get her picture taken by one of the signs pointing the way to Gay (as most visitors do).

Jess is a fun girl, and Tim is lucky to have found her.

Last weekend I headed up to Mason to photograph another set of industrial ruins. This one is a favorite for the airsoft and paintball folks.

As I mentioned in my last post, Monday I shot some industrial ruins not far from Houghton. Here are a few shots from the trip (more pictures in my flickr photostream):

That’s about the only time I’ve seen my apartment this past week. Work has been insane, 72 hours last week and more than 60 last week. Oh well, it will be a nice paycheck at least.

School starts on Tuesday, thank goodness it’s only a 3 day week though, so I’ll have time to recover before classes get too difficult.

I managed to snap a few pictures these past couple weeks at somepoint, I’m not sure how I found the time: