August 2014 - The Jacobs Family Website

August 23, 2014

Nature at Bass Lake

We’ve been back from vacation for a couple of weeks now but I’m still working through a bit of a back log on getting pictures off of the camera. Here are few pictures of nature around Bass Lake both large and small. The panorama picture of the storm passing to the north of the lake is one of my favorite pictures. Enjoy!

Storm over Bass Lake

View of the new house from the lake shore

View from the back side

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Crystal took this one out by the swamp. A frog and a bee on the same milkweed plant.

Fungus Among Us

Wild flower on Bass Lake

The profile is his best side.

I was getting close to him and he stated to take an aggressive stance. Seconds after this picture he went for me.

A wolf spider giving me the stink eye. Eight of them.

August 6, 2014August 6, 2014

Bass Lake Pictures

Here are a few more pictures from our summer on Bass Lake.

Nora reading on the boat

Kai and Nora Tubing on Bass Lake

More tubing

Crystal on the Pontoon with a squal in the background

Nora on Bass Lake

Kai on Bass Lake

Hunting for beads at the Rendezvous

Kai and Nora on a food shelf donation run

August 4, 2014

Pictures of Shattuck

Shattuck has a beautiful campus! After Charlotte’s Baptism I hung around and captures a few HDR images.

HDR shot of Morgan Hall

Interior HDR shot of the Chapel of the Good Shepard.

Shumway HDR

Shumway black and white on a cloudy day

A Shumway HDR picture

Shumway Tower from the bottom

The Shattuck Arch

August 4, 2014

Arlington Visit

In our final week of vacation we spent a couple of days in Arlington, MN visiting Grandma Annette, the Posts and, of course, the Sibley County fair! The Sibley County Fair is always a favorite. Plenty of animal barns to walk through, wagon rides, fair exhibits and more than enough deep fried food. Another highlight was the Sibley Soil and Water Conservation District booth in the commercial building. If you are a resident of Sibley County I highly recommend voting for Paul Wiemann as chairman – he certainly has our vote (if we were residents).

The highlight of the fair was a bucket of chicks that the kids could play with.

Kai could not have been happier when they swarmed to his hands.

The highlight of the fair.

Nora and her new friend. She liked him but I thought he was kind of an ass.

Kai, Nora, Nina and Sara on the wagon ride at the Sibley County Fair

Grandma Wiemann with grandkids

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Annette, Nina, and Sara

Annette poses with two of her honorable and respectful children.

Annette, Crystal and Lea Ann.

Three generations of Wiemann.

August 3, 2014

Glacial Potholes at Interstate Park

We recently stopped at Interstate Park which is on the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin. It is a wonderful park and home to the largest concentration of Glacial Potholes in the world. The glacial potholes form when rocks in a fast moving river fall into a small divot and swirl around knocking against the rock and acting as a drill. They make circular drill holes some times called “Witches’ Cauldrons”. Often quite small, some in the park are over 60 feet deep!

Crystal, Kai and Nora at Interstate Park checking out the glacial potholes. In both quantity and size of potholes it is a world wonder.

Ben, Kai and Nora pose on the edge of cliff in the park.

Kai and Nora climbing on rocks in the park.

An HDR shot of the Taylors Falls Queen

Checking out one of the larger cauldrons. Kai is maveling at the duckweed growing in the hole. Duckweed is, of course, the world's smallest flowering plant.

Nora and Crystal check out a pothole in this HDR pic

Getting ready to decend into the "Bottomless Pit". It turned out that it did have a bottom but at over 60 feer deep it was an impressive glacial pothole.

Kai on a natural rock bridge

Nora on a natural rock bridge

A view down one of the deeper ones.

An HDR shot of one of the larger glacial potholes

August 2, 2014

Charlotte’s Baptism

Earlier this week was neice Charlotte’s Baptism on the Shattuck-St. Mary’s campus where Crystal and I met, began our teaching careers and were married. We hadn’t been back there in over a decade and it was great to see the campus and the positive trajectory the school is on. Enjoy the pictures!