On the Waterfront

Ashtabula, Ohio. Taken in 1991, on a day we spent wandering from harbor to harbor on the south shore of Lake Erie. Camera: Chinon Genesis III

Muskegon, Michigan

St. Ignace, Michigan.

You'll perhaps recognize this photo as sort of an inversion of this photo , which I posted here a couple weeks back. The snow and ice are gone and the water's now running real high in the Grand. These buildings are the backsides of businesses on Kent Street. A few years back--before Portland built the riverwalk (they call it a boardwalk, which I can live with)-- these were unattractive, albeit surprisingly colorful, buildings . They're quite proud of the improvement, as they should be. "Bridge Street Bridge" is a playfully (or painfully ) recursive name. Interestingly, the bridge is labelled differently at opposite ends--from the west (north?) it's indeed Bridge Street Bridge, but from the east it's Veterans Memorial Bridge. This page calls it by both names. This page calls it Vets, while this page calls it BSB. I'm not exactly confused, but I'm perhaps a bit bemused.

The lighthouse at Old Mission Point in Grand Traverse Bay. Still snow there yesterday, as you can see.

Jim Oberstar, long a congressman from northern Minnesota, passed away yesterday . A good man. This ship , long known as the Charles M. Beeghly, was rechristened in Oberstar's name in 2011 to honor that long congressional service. Photo taken at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, on September 2, 2012.

Or half of the store, anyway; the building's attached to a similarly-deteriorated warehouse. The was the company store at Fayette.

130 or so years ago this was a dock, shipping iron ingots down the Great Lakes. Snail Shell Harbor, Fayette State Park, Michigan.

Snail Shell Harbor, Fayette State Park, Michigan.