Summertime Along Lake Michigan

by Kay Novy

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Summertime Along Lake Michigan

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Kay Novy

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Photograph - Photography

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Thank you, "Wisconsin Flowers And Scenery" group, for the honor of being chosen "Spotlight Artist Of The Week"! (July 23, 2016).

A recent photograph, taken along the shore of Lake Michigan in Kenosha Wisconsin, USA area. Red Pierhead (north pier) lighthouse is in the background.

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. The other four Great Lakes are shared by the U.S. and Canada. It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third-largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron (and is slightly smaller than the U.S. state of West Virginia). To the east, its basin is conjoined with that of Lake Huron through the wide Straits of Mackinac, giving it the same surface elevation as its easterly counterpart; the two are technically a single lake. Lake Michigan is shared, from west to east, by the U.S. states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Ports along its shores include, Chicago, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Gary, Indiana, and Benton Harbor, Michigan. The word "Michigan" originally referred to the lake itself, and is believed to come from the Ojibwa word mishigami meaning "great water". In the earliest European maps of the region, the name of Lake Illinois has been found in addition to that of "Michigan".

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July 22nd, 2016

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