The Milky Way rises over the Spirit Tree in Grand Portage, MN. The Spirit Tree, for those who are unaware, is an old-growth cedar tree on the Lake Superior shoreline of the Grand Portage Reservation in northeast Minnesota. The tree is a significant place for the Ojibwe people and tribe members will frequently visit the tree to leave offerings of tobacco. I grew up just a mile or so from the tree and my first memories of it were visiting it with my grade school class and making sketches of the tree for art class. I never expected that I would still be visiting the tree to this day (let alone living in the same house that I grew up in!), only now with a camera in hand and capturing images such as this. It is definitely a comfort knowing that this magnificent tree continues to watch over the lake just over the hill from where I live.
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