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Welcome to Doug Welker's photo page

(It's called that even though there are no photos on this page!)

Click on the links below for pictures of my wife, Marjory Johnston, and me, our house and property, and the general area where we live in Upper Michigan:

Marjory and me, Thanksgiving 1999
View of our house from the southwest
Our house under construction, 1986
Our house under construction, 1987
Winter scene at our house
Maxwell, one of our dogs
Maxwell as a puppy, on the beach at Baraga MI
Jenny, our other dog
The dogs again, with our pond in the background (looking ENE)
Them again, our house in background (looking SSW)
Marjory and our former cat Morris on couch, dogs on floor
"Snow tongue" in front of garage, Marjory with "Yooper Scooper"
Cabin I built at our pond
Inside of cabin
Looking out from the cabin at the pond
Outhouse at the pond
View of our pond from the dam, looking SW
Swimming dock and float at pond
Woodshed and other stored wood, west end of our house, looking SE
Our garden and field, before the pond was built, looking NE
Typical April (mud season) view looking N down our road
Our driveway in mud season
Topographic map of our local area
Cliff with ice (about a mile from our house)
Small waterfall upstream from last view
Our township museum, formerly log schoolhouse, being moved
Trail to the museum from the Laird Township Hall parking lot
Prickett Lake from Silver Mountain, 10 miles south of us
Prickett Lake just above powerhouse
150 foot sheer basalt cliff on south side of Silver Mountain
Bear's Den Overlook of Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness, upstream from Silver Mountain
Farther upstream in Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness
Mount Arvon, highest point in Michigan, east of L'Anse (sorry, no view!)
Lake of the Clouds from Cuyahoga Peak, Porcupine Mtns. Wilderness State Park
Westernmost point in Michigan (mouth of Montreal River northwest of Ironwood) (far side of river is in Wisconsin
Beaver pond near Bob Lake
Skiing across a bog near Twin Lakes
Fallen yellow birch tipup, near Haystack Mountain near Sidnaw
Lift bridge between Houghon (where I work) and Hancock (where Marjory works)
Another view of bridge, from top of Mount Ripley Ski Area
Ryan Strong (student I work with)-picture is a couple years old
Ryan's (and my) friend Andy Rohrer, with his dog Amber

For more photos from around the area where we live, click here.

More photo links will appear in the future.

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Last update:  March 3, 2001