Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: hastings

Carlton Center, Michigan.

From Charlton Park, near Hastings, Michigan.

Another photo from the same location, but processed quite differently. Near Woodland, Michigan.

From the Charlton Park Road, looking towards Woodland.

Sculpture by James Oleson. Hastings, Michigan

Sculpture by James Oleson. Hastings, Michigan

Sculpture by James Oleson. Hastings, Michigan

Hastings, Michigan. I trust this sculpture has a name and an artist, but found no obvious sign at the site. If someone knows, please fill in the missing details. Thanks. It's Gaze II by James Oleson. Some details in the links in the comments, below. Hastings' central business district is full of sculptures, but I really don't know any details. Hastings is a town I travel through, not a town I visit--and the sculptures are downtown, which my route through town skirts.

Hastings, Michigan.

Hastings, Michigan.

Photo taken from Barber Road, which could be said to be near Carlton Center, Michigan. Except that it's pretty difficult to demonstrate that Carlton Center actually exists, these days, as it doesn't show on maps (except as a road name) and has few mentions on Google. And while signs marked its location a few years back, those have gone. Yet: I drive through the place several times each week. I could take you there, and I surely could convince you the hamlet was quite real in the recent past. There's a church building (more recently a dance hall), an auto repair business (it's still operating), a former grange hall, and a few houses. A bit off the main road's an abandoned schoolhouse. It's fading away as I watch.

Hastings, MIchigan.

And an inconvenient telephone pole. The map claims this is at Freeport (Michigan), but I'd have thought Woodland. Or Hastings. Charlton Park Road just south of M-43, regardless.

Barry County, Michigan.

Across the street from the Courthouse Annex in Hastings, Michigan. The title's a reference to this .

Hastings, Michigan

Hastings, Michigan

Wonderful porch; odd roofline. Hastings, Michigan.