Lighted Spaces and Landscapes
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Category: Michigan
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I was taking the train home from Michigan to Milwaukee in the 1980s. There was a delay on the tracks and they stopped at a station to let us walk around and get something to eat. Although we were between these two places, Detroit and Chicago were the endpoints on the train line. (Battle Creek,…
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I tell this story often. I was doing a consult in Grand Rapids and they offered to fly me over from Milwaukee. I suggested the ferry–same price and I get to use my car. This surprised them and at each meeting for 2 days, I was introduced as: “this is Julio Rivera from Milwaukee, and…
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I was traveling from a conference in upstate New York. I was taking the leisurely way across Canada and Michigan. I crossed Lake Michigan on the SS Badger. I stopped for gas and snacks in a town I worked in for 5 summers when I was young. It was a gas station then. Here it…
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A few weeks ago you saw me on this line. I was working at a summer camp and we were on our day off. We all stopped for quick photos (US 31, Western Michigan, 1981)
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I have been here often (but not recently). When I worked in Northern Michigan, we used to go here on our day off. Color of the falls is a bit brown from the tannins from cedar and hemlock swamps upstream. It has the 2nd largest flow (behind Niagara) in the Eastern United States. (Tahquamenon Falls,…
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Sometimes you just have to stop for the photo op. (US 31, Western Michigan, 2013)
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It was a late December ice storm that coated every surface and in this case, every blade of grass. (Lansing, Michigan, 1984)
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My Great Aunt Agnes was born and passed away on this farm. She was probably in her early 80s when this was taken. She taught me a lot about strength. She did have a dryer–not sure why wasn’t using it. I didn’t take this photo, but I found it in my mother’s things. She might…
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