Installment Ten

Every year we visit Anderson Dock in Ephraim.  There has been a dock here since 1858 when Norwegian immigrants constructed the first one to aid in exporting local products such as cedar and salted fish.

Mom loves to takes pictures here because the old warehouse now the Hardy Gallery is such a colorful backdrop.

This fall Indy and Lucy will be among the names you see.  See how snoopy we are.

We like to take one day and drive around the peninsula, go to our favorite places, check for changes, here a sniff, there a sniff.  In looking for the place we are going to rent this fall, we stumbled on this.

Love the barn quilt patterns but often the barns are too far from the road to photograph without a telephoto lens.  Remember, Mom only has an IPhone.

Mom and Dad took another boat ride around the Fish Creek area and Peninsula State Park.

Eagle Bluff Lighthouse… one of the 11 in Door County that have saved countless lives and guided ships to safety.

The limestone cliffs and caves of Peninsula Park are part of the Niagara Escarpment, a geological formation most famous as the cliff over which the Niagara River plunges at Niagara Falls, for which it is named.  Cottage Row, exclusive Fish Creek realty, could be viewed on the way back to harbor.  Often called Millionaire’s Row, this strip of shore side has been one of Door County’s most preferred addresses for the past 100 years when Chicago leading tycoons, magnates, and robber barons left their grand mansions on Prairie Avenue and established equally elaborate ones for summer on the shores of Green Bay.

The harbor at Fish Creek

Sunset viewing always gathers a crowd in Door County.  This one is from the Shallows Resort in Egg Harbor.

Hope you have enjoyed a day in Door with us.  ~ Indy and Lucy

Eagles, Plum Island. Lake Michigan

Installment Nine

We arrived later than usual because of the GPS incident; you remember?  Not having eaten on the road, the peeps were starving.  There was a place up the street from our cottage that Mom wanted to try.   It was perfect: reubens, cheeseburgers and sweet potato fries.  In fact, they ate there several times during our stay.  It was a cozy, kick back sort of place.

The Blue Horse Café is a great place for breakfast or lunch and right out our front door.  It’s got a view of the bay inside and outdoor PET FRIENDLY dining.  Menu includes breakfast and lunch sandwiches as well as bakery items and gourmet coffees.  Dad loves the ‘Meatzilla’ and Mom’s fave is the bacon cheddar biscuit.  Jalapeno biscuits were a hit this year too.

The White Gull Inn, also in Fish Creek, is known for its famous cherry stuffed French toast. Mom and Dad had a few breakfasts there as well as lunch with friends.

Fish Creek is listed by Forbes as one of the 15 prettiest towns in America.  This historic B&B contributes to it.

This year a new restaurant, LURE, opened in Sister Bay which is a little over 8 miles up Hwy 42 from our home base in Fish Creek.  Seafood is its specialty and the peeps met Lesley and Bill Connor from Pennsylvania and the Australians, Mark and Wendy, for dinner on its opening night.  Naturally, the oysters made it a must for Mom but Lesley’s whitefish almondine looked so good Mom made a return visit to order it.  She went to a fish boil (very popular in Door) our first year here and got an unfavorable impression of the whitefish.  Now thanks to the culinary expertise at the Lure, she’s a fan.

The owners of the LURE are also responsible for another of the peeps’ favorites, the CHOP.  They ate there several times but don’t have a picture.  However, word is that the carrot cake is the best you can get.  Thumps up if you got them to everything on the menu, Mom said, plus they got to see Elli Lapolla, part owner and  waitress extraordinaire.  Door County is truly about family businesses.  There were a couple of pet friendly places we didn’t get to this year: the DC Deli in Baileys Harbor, Coyote Roadhouse on Kangaroo Lake and the Harbor Grille in Baileys Harbor only once.  There are still many places to try and others to revisit.  Mom is making her list for fall.

OK,OK…now we are hungry ~ Indy and Lucy

Installment Eight

We were lucky the cherry trees were in bloom this year.  This is the third year we have seen them.  One year it was a cold spring and they were not blooming yet.   It is a glorious sight.

Lautenbach’s  orchard and winery are favorites and the honeycrisp apple wine is delish.

This is Mom’s favorite spot to photograph the cherry trees.  It’s over by Applewood Cottage on the EE.

The woodlands are carpeted with this lovely perennial, the trillium. as well as these forget me nots.

We take a picture in front of these tulips every year.

Sometimes we cooperate; sometimes we don’t.  BOL!  Did you notice we have cherries on our collars?  🙂

Door County in May is a second spring for us. We love it there. ~ Indy and Lucy