LAKESHORE WETLANDS

 Unless they have a constant water source like a lake or creek, the wetlands are often dry this time of year.  They’re still pretty, though.  Sometimes I luck out and find herons there too, as I did at the Dune Climb and Otter Creek.

MESSING WITH BLACK AND WHITE

 

I got my start in photography as a young teacher advising the yearbook class.  While a professional took the facial snaps, the students and I took and developed all the candid, sport, and club pictures ourselves.  Back then, they were all black and white.  Now, black and white photography is mostly digital.  It was fun “developing” these photos in black and white after a trip to the boonies, but color photography is my mainstay.

 

ANOTHER SAME DIGIT HIGHWAY

 

When I think of same digit Michigan highways, I obviously think of iconic M-22.  But there’s another rural highway with same digit numbers, M-66.  It runs from Charlevoix to the Indiana state line.  Fields of corn and soybean and many farms, some in dilapidated condition, dot its roadsides.  I wonder if the M-66 signs get stolen too.

 

THE SUN SETS ON SUMMER

 And a new season arrives.  Happy fall, everyone.

DEER ON THE MOVE

 I’ve been seeing more deer lately.  I loved these four fawns lazing on a freshly mowed hay field.  Their spots are beginning to fade. Some deer are already growing their dark winter coats.

 

CLOUDS MAKE THE SCENE

 

GREENS AND GOLDS

 

Just pretty together.

RED-TAILED HAWK

  I hadn’t seen a hawk close enough to photograph all summer, so when I saw this beauty along US-31 north I pulled off the highway into a ditch to take pictures.  It posed, flew so I could get its tail, then returned to the wire.  I was surprised when a good neighbor pulled up next to my Subaru to ask if I was okay.  Thank you, but doesn’t everyone take pictures from a ditch?