Marblehead, Lake Erie

To all my Flickr friends who have inspired me with their beautiful images of Lake Erie, here is my contribution to their collective body of work. Megan and Weston allowed me to leave the hotel room early the morning of June 7th and drive the ten miles or so to Marblehead, to photograph Lake Erie and the Columbus Limestone that forms the shoreline there. My only company- the waves and two fisherman. If you go to Marblehead, go early before sunrise, you will not regret it. Megan just looked at this image and said "When did you go to the ocean?"

Tom

Alvars and Lakeside Daisy

I've been surveying the Alvars, an extremely rare habitat type here in Ohio, for the Lakeside Daisy. Here's a rundown of this incredible habitat. An alvar is a very shallow soil system over limestone, dominated by red cedar and containing all kinds of extremely rare plants. In North America, Alvar communities are only know from a handful of locations near the Great Lakes shores of the U.S. and Canada.





Fossils from the Columbus Limestone, which is the top layer of limestone in the pictures above.