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Daily walk 03/27/08

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

   Today I walked down to the Co-op as my destination and took these pictures on the way.

 

   Most people around here call it Darlene’s now, but for a long time it was called “The Cow”. There used to be a likeness of a Gernsey out front used as an advertisement tool. It’s gone, but they still serve ice cream cones there to the fudgies.

 

   This is “Number 6″, the engine used during the early 1900’s to pull lumber out of town and later as a tourist attraction.

 

   I saw these growing out of a lawn that used to be owned by the “Cherry Pie Lady”. Her cherry pies were the rage of the town after Grandma Kamradt died. Until then, that honor belonged to Grandma.

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Daily walk 03/21/08

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

The snowbanks along this sidewalk were 4′ deep a week ago.

 

This is the centerpoint of almost all conversations in town, which usually begins with, “What’s the temp at the bank?”

 This is evidence that the lakes were as low as they are now. When I was a kid these walks were 4' below the waterline.

Back in the 1920’s, those posts had a boardwalk on them for the smelt dippers. Smelt back then would spawn in the river and metric tonnes of the critters were hauled out each Spring.

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Daily walk

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

   in the quest for “mens sano en corpe sano” I’ve started walking every day and I’ll be taking my camera along with me. I may not write anything but I’ll have pictures taken each trip.

 Public launch site: East Jordan, Mi.

Fleet landing; take note of the water level. The Great Lakes are close to record low levels and this may change big-time, but it’ll be short lived. We won’t really know how bad it’ll be until August.

 Ice shanties were to the left of frame.

Half way to the horizon there were 7 ice shanties where “supposedly” fish were caught. I’ve been told by unreliable sources that most of the activity had to do with “hydrolic replenishments” Just beyond the site line of the dock, is two fishermen trying for steelhead. They’ve been averaging one a day each, generally 4#.

 

This is the Silver Maple I wrote about in last years blog under ’seasonal changes’. This is usually the first tree I see in bloom and later, in leaf.

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