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Our six-year-old granddaughter Adeline flew from Atlanta alone to spend the next three weeks with us. We are having a lot of fun outdoors. We plan a new outdoor adventure every day. The three things she wanted to do when visiting Poppy and Grandma was to swim at the “Y”, go camping and eat “World’s Best” donuts. In between those three we hike to a new spot everyday. Addie loves to take photos so I am teaching her how to use my camera.

The High Falls at Grand Portage State Park is roaring at this time of year. It produces a beautiful double rainbow when the sun is shining. Addie discovered how difficult it is to photograph the falls. She wanted to take photos of the falls, however, the spray that creates the rainbow also gets you wet when standing on the overlook. We brought an umbrella to keep some of the mist off of us. We had a plastic bag over the camera and Addie got some great photos. You can see how high the falls are by comparing to the guy in the red shirt in the upper left corner of Addie’s photo.

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We were pretty wet by this time. But the view was worth it.

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The next day we drove up the Gunflint trail to hike to Honeymoon Bluff overlooking Hungry Jack Lake and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

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Addie thought it was a pretty nice spot and with my assistance used my camera to take some photos. The spring greens are so beautiful at this time of year especially when the white puffy clouds are floating by.

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Addie is pretty excited when she is outdoors.

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Addie the Photographer

In Grand Marais we found a mallard with newborn babies. I set the camera with the tripod on the dock so Addie could take pictures of the babies.

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At first most of the babies were under the mother’s wings.

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Then she raised her foot and all of them came running out.

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The next thing we knew they were in the water swimming.

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It was pretty neat to have them swim in front of us.

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Addie thought the newborn ducklings were so cute.

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