I camped at the Riffle River Recreation Area over the weekend and the sky was clear revealing a plethora of stars at night. I went over to the Devoe Lake beach and set up my tripod and took a few pics, it was so dark I had to use my tripod with a cable release
Going down the expressway you see all sorts of billboards and signs and I could not even tell you what’s on them, I forget all about them after about 2 miles, but this old motel sign near Clare always stands out, I think instead of all these modern signs and their fancy new graphics and
The Tawas lighthouse in the Tawas State Park. I was camping at the park and I wanted a pic of the lighthouse under the stars so while I was out there the rangers told me I was not supposed to be in that section of the park at night but I asked politely and they
And now for something totally different, some of the waterfalls up in the UP have hydroelectric plants near them. This is the water pipe that carries water to power the plant near the Cataract Dam in the Escanaba River. It’s strange to see this enormous, pipe about 6 feet in diameter, running thru the forest,
CurwoodCastle is on the bank of the ShiawaseeRiver in Owosso. It was built by author James Oliver Curwood for a writing studio. How cool is that he could have built an ordinary building but he built his own castle and you know what they say the pen is mightier than the sword. And even better
I saw this old barn in the countryside east of Manton Michigan.
I found this little old shack near Thompsonville. I find these old houses like this through out northern Michigan. It makes you wonder about when they were built and who lived there. I am sure traveling around northern Michigan back in those days was not as easy as it is now.
I can’t have a Michigan page without a sunset and a bridge. This probably is not the bridge that you are thinking of, but it is one of the largest bridges of its type in the world. It’s the Houghton-Hancock lift bridge over PortageLake in the Keweenaw Peninsula
Driving around the thumb this morning I found this ornate house near Watrousville Mi and figured this was not your average farm house. I did a little research and found out it’s on the national list of historic places and it was the home of Richard C. Burtis. from the Registry ”The Burtis House is
I was in the little town of Manton north of Cadillac and in the middle of town was this old mill along the railroad tracks. I think a lot of towns in Michigan are built around an old grain elevator or train station. when I saw the “Save The Mill” sign it made me think