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| Country road in Charlevoix County |
The beach at Clinch Park, just steps from downtown Traverse City. Summer days here can be perfect, like this Thursday in early August.
Here's a private little nook of calm with a view of busy Front Street in downtown Traverse City, Michigan.
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Wind and waves interact to create ripple on the mouth of Otter Creek in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
I tried to leave only footprints, but the waves washed even them away. Within minutes, all trace of my travels had been erased. Perhaps I was only a dream.
I dug out my old flatbed scanner today, plugged it in and put a pair of bananas on it. I left the top open. Halfway through the 10-minutes scanning process, I leaned over it for a moment to get something off a bookshelf. The dark blue of my sweater created the thin line mid-scan. It looked interesting. So I flipped the cover down on the fruit for a minute or so as the scan continued, then flipped it back up after a wide dark bar had recorded.
Then I added a bit of saturation and vignette.
River swimming brings its own kind of joy. Floating gently in the cool water as the current presses past your skin on its journey to the big lake. The alternating bright sun and gentle shade of the pines. Perhaps a glimpse of a shiny trout shooting across a riffle of fast water.
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A fish tug sits at dock in Fishtown in Leland.
Fishtown is an authentic remnant of history, a collection of structures grouped around the river mouth in Leland Harbor, which has been home the last few years to a variety of businesses that depend on tourists. At last inspection, there were a candy store, several clothing shops, a cheese and sandwich shop, some gift shops, and a shoe store.
Just down the dock is the office of the company that shuttles passengers to both North Manitou Island and South Manitou Island.
And a few steps away, you'll find downtown Leland, with a couple of blocks of shops and restaurants.