A bud on a tree near the County Building in downtown Muskegon
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A lovely little bud from a walk along Muskegon’s Lakeshore Bike Trail in early April.
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Ruddiman Pond
An early April morning at Muskegon’s Ruddiman pond
An early morning at the Seaway crossing near the GVSU energy center in downtown Muskegon.
These spring flowers seemed to be pushing through way too early, especially since these pictures come from a walk in mid-March!
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Ruddiman Pond, March 29, 2009
Could yesterday morning’s snow be the last that we will see until next winter? It has been a long winter, but the cold has made for some really pretty walks around Muskegon.
This icy drop was part of the scenery next to Ruddiman Pond on Sunday morning.
The morning sun appears over one of the old ponds that line Muskegon’s Lakeshore Bike Trail.
Looking up the stairway at Muskegon’s St Jeans Catholic Church.
This morning’s walk around Muskegon’s Ruddiman Pond was one of the coldest of the winter. While the breeze was extremely light, its effect on any exposed skin was painful.
In spite of the cold, the beautiful sunrise lighting up the ice made the trip well worth making.
The sun rises over the field at the corner of Michillinda and Lamos in Muskegon County, Michigan.
In the summertime, this corner is a really fun place to watch deer, which can be seen most hours of the day happily grazing away.
Not knowing that the circus had arrived in Muskegon made it a shock to come face to face with one of the performers this morning.
The extreme cold didn’t seem to bother my new acquaintance in the least. Indeed, he seemed not at all inclined to pull in head back into the tent!
This is one of the structural supports for the overhead walkway at Muskegon High School.
Muskegon’s Evergreen Cemetery on the morning of January 20, 2009.
The Muskegon Farmer’s Market is still awfully cold and quiet, but it won’t be for much longer. It will be wonderful to see everyone back for another season of great friends and food.
Here is the sun coming up over the Ruddiman Creek valley just down the hill from Muskegon’s McGraft Park.
With the creek finally starting to thaw a bit, it’s really fun to watch all of the animals reappearing. Besides all of the resident ducks, there are usually a few large mammals navigating the water. These guys (beavers?) aren’t obvious as yet, but I’m sure that we’ll be seeing them any day now.
This is the turret of an old house on Muskegon’s Houston Street.
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Border Barn, October 15, 2008
When you get used to meandering around Muskegon County, it’s easy to become spoiled. Not just from the lovely sites and lovely people, but also by what a fantastic walking area we have here.
Our good fortune is especially noticeable when business takes you away – as during this fall trip to northern Indiana, which may be the most inhospitable place for a morning trek – with the possible exception of the Grand Rapids’ “S” curve.
Not only these folks so enamored of the RV that they forgot to build sidewalks…anywhere. They then reinforce that lapse with shoulders so steep that you have no choice but to 1) walk altogether too close to the road or 2) go back to bed and forget the whole thing.
Not being smart enough to choose Door #2, your’s truly spent over an hour nearly rubbing elbows with every oncoming, velocity-abusing SUV in the Greater Elkhart area, before finding this great old barn near the Michigan border.
This leaf was frozen to the walkway of Muskegon’s Lakeshore Bike Trail near the Cobb plant. The ice crystals gave it a really pretty fossilized effect.
Just a few steps farther along, this berry was equally chilly, but was still a really gorgeous red.
For all of you who have given up all hope of ever being warm again…
October’s harvest moon was so gorgeous that it made for loads of pictorial opportunity.
This is the statue in the middle of Muskegon’s Hackley Park on one of those lovely mornings.
