My husband and I just came back from a vacation to the upper parts of Michigan.  We try to go every year.  It gives us an opportunity to reconnect, spending uninterupted time together enjoying the beauty of Michigan during peak weather here.  I didn’t touch a computer for 10 days.  That was very foreign for a self-described computeraholic like me.  The only thing I needed on vacation was my husband and my cameras!!  LOL.  He’s okay with not being my one and only, as long as he’s my first choice. Being married to a photographer must have its pitfalls.

We visited friends and relatives and spent the rest of the time wandering beaches and shoreline and interesting sites in Michigan that we take for granted or haven’t seen since we were children like the Soo Locks and Tahquamenon Falls.  We didn’t keep track of time, we didn’t have a schedule, we just wandered and enjoyed.  Oh, I let him beat me at putt-putt golf. If you ever get to Petoskey, it’s the best putt-putt course anywhere!

Michigan is surely beautiful.  I think the thing that always strikes me the most when we travel elsewhere is the lush greenness of Michigan. Ireland was the only place I’ve seen that’s as green and it’s green in a different way.  

Here are a few of my favorites from our summer vacation for you to enjoy. It’s hard to spot, but there’s a surfer in the water in this image taken in Charlevoix. Crazy guy! The sand was whipping my face so hard I could barely see but he was joyfully riding the waves…. in Michigan. Go figure.

As a photographer, I should get tired of pressing that shutter but, ironically, I never do.  I even dragged my tripod on vacation and used it one time; to snap this photo of Rod and I. I get lots of great photos of ‘stuff’ on vacation and once and a while of him but never him and I. So glad I dragged it along! LOL.