We were actually there to attend a concert in the Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck, but it meant we were able to stay with our friends outside Benton Harbor, and on the way north stop in Van Buren Park.
This past weekend saw the opening of »
Archive of journal entries re "Lake Michigan"
The last few days we’ve been over on the west side of the state, staying at our friend’s family’s farmhouse. It rained most of the way there, and most of the first day; whereas I’d been managing a page or two of the book I was reading about coyotes »
Last weekend we went up to Petoskey. We had not been there before, even though I would have liked to make it up for the opening of the photography exhibition at the Crooked Tree Arts Center. Now the show was over, and the print needed to come home, »
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We were making plans to stay at our friend’s farmhouse outside Benton Harbor, and hoping to meet up with friends who lived in Grand Rapids, and did our normal check on what was going on in the area, what there might be to see, and were surprised when we »
We haven’t been “Up North” for a long time. One of the poets Jill publishes, Holly Wren Spaulding, has a residency at the The Old Art Building in Leland. Normally residencies there (any gallery?) are by visual artists, so if we needed any more encouragement to go »
Here we are again at the cottage by Lake Michigan, near Michillinda. This is the one owned by Jill’s cousin, where this photograph originated. When we arrived, we headed down to the strip of beach there, and this is the view as you head down the steps to »
I know, that doesn’t look much like a photo of a farm. We were fortunate to be able to stay a couple of nights at the farm that Elizabeth’s parents own outside of Benton Harbor. We went into St Joseph for lunch one day and afterwards I went for »
After all the preparations for the show at Kerrytown Concert House and printing the calendar, it was the last minute, week before last, when I entered the UK’s Outdoor Photography magazine’s Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition. I submitted 8 photos to each of 2 categories: At the water’s »