Barbara Spring’s Blog

By Barbara Spring Last updated: Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:33am PST
  • The Dynamic Great Lakes

    By Barbara Spring, on Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:30am PST

    The Great Lakes are always changing.  Usually ice begins to form on Lake Michigan by Thanksgiving.  Not so this year.  It has been a mild month.  Each year I enjoy watching ice blooming on the beach.  First one crystal forms on the sand, and then there are formations all… Read More »

  • The Great Lakes Rock

    By Barbara Spring, on Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:52am PST

    From the round surf-polished rocks of Lake Superior’s shore to the sand dunes of Lake Michigan, I have roamed and picked up stones: agates, pudding stones and some bearing copper or fossils.  And I hiked the…

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  • Our Water Planet

    By Barbara Spring, on Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:50am PST

    Our beautiful water planet as seen from the moon.   Most of the water on this planet is salt water. The freshwater seas--the five Great Lakes--need to be preserved for generations to come.

    They are 18 per cent of the fresh surface water on this planet. Water is life. These lakes…

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About This Author

I'm Barbara Spring, author of three books: The Dynamic Great Lakes, a green book about the freshwater seas. My other two books are poetry: The Wilderness Within and Sophia's Lost and Found: Poems of Above and Below. These books and some reviews of them may be found on Amazon.com and bn.com (Barnes & Noble) and Sophia is on ebay.