The ‘Warren W. Hines’
The MV ‘Ronald L. Sensenbach’
The ‘Barry Griffith’
The ‘James H. Hunter’
The Montgomery County Courthouse
Long overdue, here are some photos of my 2021 trip to Maine. If you like them, you can find more at my Flickr page.
Fort Gorges sits in the mouth of the Portland Harbor.
The MT Eurotrader
The old grist mill in Yarmouth, Maine
The Royal River flows through Yarmouth, Maine
The US Post Office in Brunswick, Maine
The Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Another view of this glorious lighthouse
Mackinaw City remains my favorite place on earth. I paid it another visit in October 2022. Here are a few of my favorite photos from the trip.
Located within the City of Lansing, Hawk Island County Park is a lovely gem of a park that offers year-round recreational activities. These photos are early fall photos, though, so you get to see flowers and greenery and such.
I took my new camera (a Canon Rebel SL3) out for a spin on September 7. I wanted to see what I would get from my 18-55mm and 55-250mm lenses, and Hawk Island Park seemed like a good place to do it.
One can climb to the top of the tubing hill and get a nice view of the lake and the landscape.
Throughout the park, there are all sorts of flower and wildflower gardens.
I went on a walk with a friend in Hawk Meadow Park. We mostly walked and talked, but we did take a few photos. I was fairly happy with these two, taken near the north edge of the park.
While on vacation in May, I did lots of running. Here are some of the best things I saw in Anniston and Oxford, Alabama.
This is such a beautiful, historic building.
Ty Cobb spent some time in Anniston. I’m sure some folks will dispute the “greatest baseball player of all time” designation, but he was definitely very good.
The dogs hanging out at Piper’s Playhouse were very happy to say hello when I ran by. And when I stopped. And probably any other time.
There are so many ducklings here!
I lived in Calhoun County for many years, but I had never before seen this creek, or drain, or whatever it is.
Before Michigan became a complete sauna, morning runs occasionally offered different encounters. I found this patch of fog during an early morning run that included a chunk of the path in Frances Park.
When I was in Bloomington the morning before the Indy Mini, I got in my standard day-before-the-race, 3-mile run. Bloomington’s B Line Trail is a beautiful, vibrant portion of the community. There are both residences and businesses that face the trail. I snapped a couple of photos along the way.
It’s my favorite number!
This update is late, but whatever.
Gobo loves shoes and feet and smelly things. He’s so weird.
Gobo also loves the heat vent. Maybe he’s not so weird.
Apparently, Wembley decided to hang out by the bathroom door while I showered. When I opened the door, this scene greeted me.
Wembley is overly dramatic.
Wembley also likes to see if his dramatic reactions have any effect.
Wembley is round, y’all. He’s been on a diet, and it’s had some positive effects, but it’s still a work in progress.
Sleepy kitty.
Look at all those toes!
Cats don’t need two eyes to be awesome cats.
The eye of the Ursula is upon you.
She’s a little round.
In cleaning out my wallet, I found a long-lost “fortune” from a fortune cookie. Along with my lucky numbers* and the Chinese word that I could learn, it offered me this:
Friends long absent are coming back to you.
I’m kind of curious as to who it might be, and under what circumstances they might be returning. I’m also open to suggestions. In the interim, I leave you with this:
* About those lucky numbers. Yeah, I’m not telling you what those are. Why should I share the fortune with you? Wait. Maybe that’s why my long-lost friends are coming back. Moochers.
Also, yes, I deliberately used those quotation marks around “fortune.” Most of them are platitudes, so I am very reluctant to apply the word “fortune” literally.
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