Thread: Northern Memories.......missing home bad now.

So I was talkin with another member from Canada. I am from Northwestern lower Michigan. We started talking about things Northern Michigan and I just got a little bit of sadness in my heart.Everyone has a place to call home and remembers what they liked or missed about it. For me it was so many things. We mentioned the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior. That was a big deal when I was a teen. We had a maritime academy in my home town where Merchant Marines trained. I miss the Great lakes terribly. I miss Morel mushroom hunting in the spring(I still remember the smell of fresh Morels in the woods after a rain. I miss the blazing brilliant red and orange and purple fall colors. The wines and cherries from Old mission .I really do miss the frosty winters and cross country skiing. My first car was a 40 horse inboard/outboard boat and I still love the smell of fish and 2 stroke engine fuel on the lake. Lab dogs rolling in dead fish on the beach...smelt fishing and fish fries with coleslaw and steak fries. The Mackinaw Bridge(Big Mac) and Mackinaw Island. The Northern Lights God so beautiful. Crickets and lighting bugs. Maples,Birch and Oak trees. Canoeing..oh how I miss canoeing. Keg parties in the deep woods . I'm dying here...simply dying. People think I'm weird cause I love cold wintery and scottish like weather...it's because I'm a child of the North that I am this way.So....If you're from Michigan,Canada,Minnesota,Wisconsin anywhere from the Great Lakes area or wooly North....what do you miss/remember ?!