March 2, 2010

Pictures from the bridge

As I came back from my daily grocery shopping spree in Frankfort, and I was half way across Betsie Bay, something suddenly grabbed me and I pulled over. I stopped to take a picture or two or three. There wasn’t much traffic, the school buses had already delivered their treasures – it was ok to stop.

Betise Bay with marshmallow topping a.k.a. ice floes

Looking in the direction of the red barn on M-22

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Looking towards the Cabbage Shed in Elberta
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Looking toward Frankfort

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And here we are looking towards the house of my friends Kathy and Jan
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See the house on top of the dune? That house belongs to Rena Rose and her husband, whose name I cannot recall at the moment. Strange, huh?
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February 18, 2010

Now that’s a sunrise!

Ok so it was time to take the boys to school this morning, picking up other boys along the way.

As we made our way around the corner by the old ‘Mix’s Service’ and across Betsie Bay, we spotted…..I spotted the most beautiful sunrise.
Of course with all the snow on the side of the roads, it is difficult to just pull over and take pictures. After all 15 minutes before school starts is totally rush hour here in the area 🙂

I asked Marc to do it for me and he just looked at me like I was nuts. <—– Don’t comment on that, heehee.

So, no pictures of that, but coming home I turned right onto 668- the shortest highway in Michigan- and drove to Elberta’s Waterfront Park. There I could take some pics. Nothing as spectacular as what I saw earlier, still nice though.

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The clouds were pretty cool too.

Then I drove out of the park and home again. I thought the ramshackle cottages on that road looked nice in that light this morning as well, so I took these pics to let you see It seems to me like some of them have had a little work done.

Don’t you just love the one in the foreground? It reminds me of that house on Grace Road.

Have a good day everyone 🙂

December 31, 2009

Fun weather

Yesterday the weather was spectacular.

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It wasn’t too cold, the sun was shining off and on, it snowed and the wind blew snow every which way.
Swirls of snow across the bay made me stop and take pictures.
I don’t think I did a very good job though. Another interesting thing was seeing all the shanties already in the bay,
plopped down on what looked like they were floating on small shards of ice in the water

Looking from the Library across the bay and towards the Betsie River

This is the view from Main Street towards the Library and left across the bay to Elberta and
as you can see, they are already pushing the snow in place for the snowmobile races for
Shiver by the River
taking place in February
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