Big Smokey Falls On The Wolf River In Wisconsin

Peter, I enjoyed the recent photo of the falls and the story of the Native Americans.  Very neat.

I was glad for the incentive to do a bit of internet research about the native american tribes in wisconsin.

The photos of the waterfall are lovely.

hi Peter - I believe I've been in that area - we have property around there - near Tomahawk, Wisconsin - midway between Minocqua and Rhinelander as well - this is a beautiful post card - thank you so much for sharing!  Salud

Wow, Mariana.

If you ever visit the Falls, I would love to hear about it.

The photos on the website about the Big Smokey Falls are spectacular.

Peter - I'm down in Louisiana right now on a very slow puter but I will try to view them someday - and I appreciate the reply!!!  Salud

I know what it is like to struggle with slow connections in the boonies.

I hope that the stimulus porposal for nation-wide broadband is enacted.

Actually, Peter, I prefer slow - I think we should all send post cards and get rid of cell phones - the world is turning into one big artificial hurry up and accomplish nothing world - people are texting but can't even spell - is that pathetic??? Maybe I have become cynical in my old age but I would like to see the world slow down - it doesn't hurt to wait on things and that way we enjoy them and appreciate them more.  Thank you for your comment!  Salud

Oh Mariana, I share your dream that more people of the world would write to one another.

I fear that there will be no postcard-collecting in the future.

If you want to write to me - I will write to you - via old fashioned post cards - I can send you my post office box that I've had since I was ten and had many penpals - I was a member of the Aunt Jane Letter Club in the Times Picayune - a New Orleans paper - we got it once a week out in the country - and to receive a letter was so exciting to me - a ten year old - 9 thru 12 were the ages that I opened that combination lock box at the Garden City post office...life should slow down so we can appreciate the handwriting of others - I often feel like a stranger in this land - everything is too clean - too sanitary - kids wear helmets on bikes with training wheels - it's so sad - too much sugar - too many people going every which way and not even being in tune with nature - oh well - I'm babbling but you're a kindred spirit - you know what I'm talking about - it will be nice to be back to a place where we can appreciate all aspects of beauty - in simple ways!!!  Salud

May I jump in?

I am so fortunate to live in a beautiful area, and a famous little American town (Gloucester, MA - home of the Gloucester Fisherman and etc.)  Everywhere I go, wonderful postcards are on sale by the door.  I try to carry stamps in my wallet, and a ball point pen in my pocket so that I can spontaneously send a post-card here and there as I am  in agreement with Mariana that a handwritten note or letter is a gift too infrequently given or received.

Peter - when my friends travel they know that they should automatically buy a blank postcard for Kenn.  I am still collecting blank cards of places I have never been to.  Maybe one day, someone like you will inherit my collection and share them this way.   In the meantime, I have an ongoing joke I play on an old friend:  When another friend goes to (let's say) Paris, I look through my blank French postcards, write one out to my one friend, and ask the traveler to mail it for me.  My friend has received many many postcards from me coming from exotic places I've never actually been to.

Mariana, I wish you would devote some reflection to the Aunt Jane Letter Club, and share it with us here at Gather.    Is that the name of the new group?

Kenn, I am glad to hear of your interest in postcards, and I love the way in which you use traveling friends to deliver postcard surprises.

Kenn - omg - you know how time has caught the hem of my mind and dragged it down through the mud puddles of chaos...I need to start that new group that I promised you - I truly do - it's ashame that I haven't done what I told you I would  and I feel inside my own head like an old maid auntie - though I'm not - who has the vapors - so do you think the Aunt Jane Letter Club would fit a group?  Let me think on that as I want it to be specific but also open to all...hummmm....you know that you can put your daily musings in Salud - don't you?!  Ok, keep in touch!  Salud

Very pretty - I'd certainly stay there on vacation. 

When I saw the set of recent photos on the Big Smokey Falls web page, I had a keen desire to see the place.