Blessing

Fayette State Park, Michigan, 1998.

The grey building was the Sheldon House when Fayette was an active town, and the limestone and brick building in the foreground was the machine shop.

The Garden Peninsula's residents include a number of commercial fishermen, and Escanaba's Bishop comes by early in the summer to bless the fishing fleet. That's the event we're watching develop in this photograph.

This picture works quite well in black and white, by the way; along with the horse-drawn carriages, it has an apparent authenticity which seems quite impressive. Perhaps I'll post that version, too....

Scanned from a negative; taken with my Nikon N90s