For two weeks in August 2008, we (Jann and Lynne) were Artists-in-Residence at the Porkies (Porcupine Mountains State Wilderness Park) in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. We stayed in a lovely little primitive cabin, hand-built by the Friends of the Porkies. August days are long, and for two weeks we did nothing but alphabet hunt, sometimes hiking miles in search of a single letter. And we found all 26. It was wonderful.

frog leg, frog eye, driftwood, hemlock,

rocky pattern, lily pad, birch bark, bubbly water,

grapevine, lupine, waterline, shoreline,

beach pea, fiddlehead, ghost plant, cracked shale,

Turk’s cap, marsh grass, pothole, birch,

snake shed, dead leaves, cattail, samara,

caterpillar, waterfall – see if you can find them all!