Clouds reflected in Muskegon Lake during the sunrise on July 6, 2009.
Category: Sunrises
A visiting freighter as seen from Muskegon’s Heritage Landing
The morning sun appears over one of the old ponds that line Muskegon’s Lakeshore Bike Trail.
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.
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.
For all of you who have given up all hope of ever being warm again…
Last night’s, late night, highly spirited, high on spirits, discussion of politics in the new center our political universe, Chicago, was highly satisfactory. The early morning wake-up much less so.
A walk along Lake Michigan seemed to offer a slim chance of getting ahead of the looming headache. Grasping at that thread worked surprisingly well – and even yielded a lovely sunrise over Navy Pier.
The morning view from a kayak heading in from the channel on Muskegon County’s White Lake.
The sunrise accentuates the mist on Muskegon’s Ruddiman Pond.
The sunrise over Duck Lake looking from the western shore.
The sunrise is reflected off the hull of a kayak heading across Muskegon County’s White Lake.
Chris leaves a wake while retrieving a stick during a sunrise walk this past weekend.
The gorgeous clouds are the advance team for the rain which started just a few minutes after she returned with here prize.
From a sunrise paddle on Muskegon County’s White Lake.
The sun rises over Muskegon Lake behind Michigan Steel.
As is normal for our weekend mornings, Chris once again decided that life is far too short to spend too much time getting too much sleep – especially if there is a possibility that someone might be irritated and irrigated into taking her out for a hike.
With the (very) early start, we made it to the big lake in time to catch the setting of last night’s beautiful full moon.
Don’t let those small speckles in the photo trick you into cleaning either your glasses or your monitor. They are the navigation lights of just a few of the many boats fishing off the channel this morning. So many, in fact, that it seemed as if the stars were testing the startling new concept of shining both above and below the horizon.
And not all of the fishing action was off-shore. While the boaters were out chasing their salmon, both the north and south walls of the channel were filled with anglers hoping to add perch onto tonight’s menu.
If you walk the beach even occasionally, you realize that this size of crowd isn’t normal, but then neither are the number of perch. The schools are so inordinately large that most of the fishermen are simply doing a quick visual reconnaissance over the wall before dropping their lines right into the middle of a lot of fish. Not quite as easy as dragging them from a barrel, but it could be worse!
Lest anyone think that this sums up the pre-dawn (!) action, at this same time, on the eastern end of the wall, the crew of the dredging ship, Carol Ann, was heading out. Their work is the reason for the large black pipe that you will find stretched across the south wall. It will be moving sand from the bottom of the waterway onto the beach.
Chris was surprisingly unimpressed by all the early AM activity and insisted on heading home for breakfast. Said insistence being equivalent to a wave insisting on going ashore, we departed. Shortly after leaving the channel, the sun finally showed up and seemed no more moved than Chris by all of the action.
The Richard Hunt sculpture, Muskegon Together Rising, on the morning of June 24, 2008.
This morning’s sunrise over White Lake seemed more dramatic than usual. It was almost as if the sun couldn’t get any closer.
Happy Solstice!
The gulls and ducks seem to be watching the June 11, 2008 sunrise over the City of Muskegon.
Looking east along the shore of White Lake on the morning of June 7, 2008.