BEAUTIFUL DULUTH

LOOKING TOWARD THE SE, BAYFIELD PENINSULA IN THE FAR CENTER OF PHOTO

DULUTH INNER HARBOR LIFT BRIDGE, TRAFFIC MOVING ACROSS

CHANNEL TO INNER HARBOR, SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN IN THE DISTANCE 

A CITY BUILT ON THE LAKE BLUFFS

Friday (posted Thursday evening).  Tremendous thunder and rain storm Wednesday night and Thursday morning, clearing to cloudy later in the day.  Duluth weather often reflects its position at the SW end of Lake  Superior, that I believe creates a lot of its own weather patterns.
   Duluth, MN,  is a beautiful old city, built into steep lake bluffs, the newer areas spreading out to the west beyond the bluffs.  It is an old, old inner-sea port.  Superior, WI, lies across the inner harbor that it shares with Duluth.  It is flatter and I think somewhat newer.  The shared harbor is one of the best imaginable, offering docks to the largest ships, the harbor surrounded by grain, ore and coal elevators and all sorts of other shipping and dry-dock facilities. The lakers are huge boats that often can be seen outside the inner harbor, waiting to load or unload their cargo. Persons interested in shipping and maritime issues can follow all the action on Boatnerd.com.
  Duluth and Superior are both major road and railroad transfer points, located at the junction of US Hwy. 2 and I39.  Duluth is Minnesota's second largest metropolitan area after Minneapolis/ St. Paul. Major products of the Midwest reach the east of the US and across the Atlantic through this busy port and transportation complex.