From a walk along Muskegon’s downtown lakefront on a foggy November morning.
Besides the fence at Heritage Landing, the fog made the dock pilings, the roundabout statue, and the congregational church all look great.
Along the Muskegon Lakeshore Trail on July 7, 2016
A lovely spring sprout on Muskegon Lakeshore Trail.
Looking up Ryerson Creek from Yuba Street near the old Muskegon Farmer’s Market.
Fire escape in the alley behind Muskegon’s Frauenthal Theater.
The sunrise over Muskegon’s Ruddiman Lagoon on April 24, 2016.
Downtown Muskegon on the morning of Saturday, April 9, 2016.
The first is one of the alleys near the Walker arena.
The second is the statue at Muskegon High School.
From a walk on Muskegon’s Lake Shore Bike Trail on a very cold November morning.
Lest you think that Sheridan gets all of the attention. Susie with another member of the clutter, Randy.
Baby Sheridan having too much fun in the Cat Tunnel. Too much fun? Right after this picture, he bit the photographer’s nose.
An old sailboat on Ottawa Street in Muskegon on the morning of October 20, 2015
Fall flowers next to Muskegon Lake on September 21, 2015
From Muskegon Lake, near the mouth of the north branch of the river. As this was August 1, this beauty’s designation as “blue” had expired several hours previously. But given the pretty morning, who cares?
These are from Muskegon’s McGraft Park and Heritage Landing on the morning of July 3,2015.
After so many weeks with single digit temperatures, a 32° morning can seem relatively toasty. That changes after a few long exposures, when the fingers get so numb that they can no longer open the camera shutter.
This Muskegon rail yard picture from last week was taken just before that chilly reality prompted a walk back home.
From another early morning walk along Muskegon Lake. The first is of the Kirksey dock. The other is looking across the lake towards Muskegon from the kiosk on the bike trail.
Both were taken way before sunrise, so the camera shutter had to be open for several seconds before it would capture much of anything. This is why the surface of the lake looks so crazy. Most ripples and waves tend to disappear in a long exposure.
An extremely early Wednesday walk offered a chance to shoot very long exposures of a very dark Muskegon Lake. A word to the wise…don’t try this without a tripod!
The first is a sailboat off the Hartshorn boat launch. The other two are from the Kirksey dock.
This morning’s meander along Muskegon Lake was very sunny and surprisingly wet.
Muskegon was jumping this morning.
A highly inefficient route to a packed Farmer’s Market was shared with a cross country tournament, a charity run, and a bike race. Best of all was a gorgeous hawk in the trees between Ruddiman Lagoon and Addison Street.
It was very satisfying to find Bike Trail Jim, who made last year’s initial siting of the bear swimming from North Muskegon. I assumed my hawk encounter would at least slightly rebalance the wildlife spotting score.
Bad assumption.
“You only saw one?” It seems that four of these beauties have taken up long term residence around our lagoon!
Muskegon Lake was crazy busy this morning.
Two separate bass tournaments caused a pre-dawn traffic jam at Fisherman’s Landing as an amazing number of boats were launched. The first starting gun was at 6:00 AM and the second a half an hour later. If they had been any closer together, there probably would have been pile ups on the lake itself.
The extra boats didn’t diminish the beauty of the morning. These photos are of the Milwaukee Clipper pilings and the shore just east of Ruddiman Creek.
