Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: View along the road to the resort. I have decided I have become to reliant on my iphone camera which does take nice pictures and is always with me. I need to bring my nicer better quality camera along more. This is from my Cannon xsi Road to paradise What is on the needles? I finished a 2 pair... Read more

Excerpt: Brett and Annette Geildenfelt were out fishing and hooked this nice 19.5 inch bass. Time to make soup Hungarian Fish Soup was on the menu Annette also caught this pretty fall color pic along the lake. Thanks for sharing your pics! In other news, Christmas is 88 days away and the socks have been flying off the sock maker... Read more

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Excerpt: Troy and I went for pontoon boat ride in the afternoon. Hope you enjoy the pics around the lake. Bear Den's dock is above Loon showing its winter plumage We finally got a good pic of the bee hive hanging over the lake in the shoreline. I few people have told us about this hive hanging out from the... Read more

Excerpt: When it is a beautiful fall afternoon and the colors are out the woods are calling. No better way to see the woods than by horseback. I happen to have a sister 15 minutes away with 3 horses to ride and it was time to go for a ride in the woods with the color. There are 3 riding... Read more

Excerpt: When Craig goes shopping, Craig goes shopping. He is the only one I know of that requires a semi to deliver his goodies. Lets just say Menards loves him and we now have enough patio block for a couple of years. Where will it go? It is not completely decided but he got a great deal. That is when... Read more

Excerpt: Color peaking through at Bear Den View from Red Pine on a quiet afternoon Less people means time for projects Red Pine is getting some stone walk ways around the house The reason for not a lot of blog entries this weekend was we took Jake back for year 2 at Lawrence University. Good luck Jake study hard of... Read more

Excerpt: We received yet another 2 inches of rain and the lake is on the rise again. It is now a high or higher than it was this summer and ready to go over the dock Beach wall barely keeping the water at bay. Thankfully no big ski boats are out on the lake bringing in waves The little blue... Read more

Excerpt: Troy and I had not been out to Kitty Springs in awhile and decided to head down the trail and see if we had any storm damage or trees down. The top of the big hill half way to Kitty Springs is my favorite outlook with the big towering Red and White Pines along the trail Still a lot... Read more

Excerpt: I had a beautiful set of sunset pictures shared by Brent Geilenfeldt. He was out ice fishing and caught these Beautiful thanks for sharing Brent! I need to check with him to hear what was biting We had some beautiful fresh snow fall Wednesday morning. Right now we are booked out Friday and Saturday this weekend and next. We... Read more

Excerpt: Labor Day Weekend fun, the Oster and Ament families were up enjoying the lake and the last beach days. They would like everyone else the last week of July to know they were missed and a toast was given to them on the white dock. There are a lot of days clocked by this group. To many years to... Read more

Excerpt: I stopped by Shamrock to find the Peissig family having a carving lesson. I see lots of groups whittling sticks around the campfire and what this family was doing gave whittling a whole new dimension Don showing off some of his great creations. Wonderful work! This was their first of hopefully many trips to the resort Dan and Kaitlin... Read more