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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.

Schoolcraft College wanted to do something special for Women’s History Month so I was asked to photograph some of the women there.  As I have a deep interest in women and their families, I asked if they could bring in the females in their families so I could photograph them as well.  Many of them did indeed bring in their grandmothers, mothers, daughters.   We had a ball!

I photographed way too many women to show them all here, but it was a great time sharing a day with these women and meeting their families, hearing their stories, and sharing laughter. Read the rest of this entry »