Winter Scenes

 I did more today, but am still impossibly tired in between. Started with a virtual appt with a doctor. I guess I'm going to finally be forced to get a primary care physician. Anyway, he wasn't very happy about it, but I talked him into some Prednisone. So then I had to go out to get that.

I came home on Conrad road. The winter sure is beautiful. I have no energy to enjoy it yet, but maybe there is hope for February. This is a paved road, and yes, it is plowed. Still very difficult to see with no shadows on the white.

Drove through the tunnel of trees. It doesn't look as "tunnel-y" in winter, but still interesting.

I have to admit that all I really wanted to do while I was out was get back to bed. I'm impossibly weak yet. Hopefully that will begin to change soon. My taste buds are starting to return to normal.

I napped and read in the afternoon.

I have a Zoom meeting this evening, so this is a big activity day for me given the past three weeks. Hoping I sleep better tonight. Really weird dreams.

See Tunnel of Trees

Leaf Peeping 2024- Part 2

  Today was a good day to hunker down inside, and I mostly did. Bell choir practice in the afternoon, but I worked on projects a lot. No worries. I have more nice pictures from yesterday.

Love a good dirt road in any season, but this is spectacular. Six-Mile Bridge Road.

There is only one bridge across the Little Manistee River between Stronach and Nine-Mile Bridge where the North Country Trail crosses the river. And it's on a seasonal road. This is a nice picturesque crossing of the Little Manistee at 6-Mile Bridge.

I actually wasn't aware that portions of the Little Manistee are in a fairly deep valley. Here's one such place.

Bright spots of color against a green background are always fun. Maple leaves are pretty good at that.

We made a point to drive through the tunnel of black willows at Eastlake. But they were not showing off nicely at all. I expected the leaves to be yellow. Maybe it was too dry earlier this year. These trees are getting very old. I'm not sure how much longer this view will be available. See other seasons in a link below.

Tomorrow I think there will be an event to share, but I do still have some more worthy autumn leaf pictures.

See Leaf Peeping 2024- Part 1 See Entering the Tunnel

Fall's Final Fling?

 
It wasn't raining, and it wasn't even bitterly cold, just gloomy. I decided to take a walk and picture some of the places I show fairly regularly. This fall hasn't had spectacular colors, and what's left will start coming down in the rain predicted for later this week.

Nevertheless, my "usual" spots aren't too shabby. Here's part of the line of trees along the edge of the cemetery.



The Cemetery Creek is always an old friend. I haven't been walking out back very much. Long story, not a quality one. Maybe I'll tell you another day.



It rained last night, and that makes the tree trunks dark, so they contrast nicely with the bright maple leaves in the cemetery proper.



A mile away, around the corner, is a small wetland. You've seen a number of pictures taken there at various angles. This is just a long shot of one end. Sometimes nice fall pictures are as much about texture as color.



Another tree line in the distance with an asparagus field in the middle ground.



And now we've reached my photographic destination, the tunnel of trees on Conrad Road. I figured it would still look pretty good, and I think I was right.



About a 4 mile walk.

In other news: I wrote in the morning, baked bread (maybe you'll see that tomorrow), and worked on photo sorting a little.

	See Conrad Road Tunnel of Trees See The Creek in Winter
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An Afternoon in Manistee

 
Loretta and I went to Manistee this afternoon simply to have a good time. We started by walking a portion of the Riverwalk, one of the nicest "urban" spaces in the nearby counties.



I seem to manage to often walk it in marginal seasons, so it was especially nice to see flowers in bloom today. Some were along the Riverwalk, some in town. A coneflower, zinneas and impatiens.







The ducks seem to know which docks aren't in use by the humans. There was a whole line of them taking naps.



And then we drove around the back side of Manistee Lake to come home so I could show Loretta the Eastlake tunnel of trees.



In other news: did some writing, got the last of my stuff off of the old car (the roof rack), and made an initial contact with the Manistee book store about selling my books.

Manistee Riverwalk (part), about two miles total

	See Eastlake Tunnel, Spring, Winter
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Entering the Tunnel

 
I need to leave here early Wednesday morning. My list of things to do is overly impressive, because I wasn't operating at full steam for quite a few days last week. In some ways it's like entering a tunnel. I hope there's a light at the end. So I'll illustrate that with one of my favorite roads, the road into Eastlake. All these old black willows are probably geriatric, so I take this road whenever I have cases there, just to see it, because I suspect some of them may be taken down soon.

At least it was turning green on Friday.



Here's what it looked like in March!



So, I'm going to be really chasing my tail for the next two days. Have to finish packing the food and gear, do some work stuff, and a million or so errands that chew up time. Got the whole lawn mowed today, that was one of the big-ticket time eaters. If I can knock them out, then the smaller stuff isn't such a big deal, and I can even do the packing in spurts since I work off a master list.

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