More Mackinaw City

 

It was a beautiful fall day, perfect for top down cruising, with the heat on.

But it was just a little windy, the whitecaps on the Lake Michigan were breaking over the shore at Petoskey.

Michigan 119, the Tunnel of Trees drive on the Lake Michigan shore.

Mackinaw City

 During the pandemic we took a few short day trips just to get out of the house. Mackinaw City is on the northern tip of the lower peninsula of Michigan.

Downtown is all restaurants, clothes stores, and fudge shops.

No trip to Mackinaw to complete without bringing some fudge home.

The ferry terminal where you pick up a boat to Mackinaw Island.

The Mackinaw Bridge, 5 miles across the straits between the lower and upper peninsulas in Michigan. On labor day you can walk the entire bridge.

Looking over the straits to the Grand Hotel on Mackinaw Island.

One of the ferries over to Mackinaw Island.
 

Red River Gorge part 2

 

The Red River Gorge geological area is very cool to drive through.

The natural sky bridge.

The car was clean when I started the trip but a couple days and a thousand or so miles and it was very not clean.

Red River Gorge drive

 We take road trips to anywhere we can find fun twisty roads. This trip was with the S2000 club to Kentucky, about an hour southeast of Lexington.

We pretty much took over the entire hotel.

A local business on route 11 that has one of the coolest locations ever. The building is surrounded by cliffs.

The road looks like it disappears but actually we're heading into the Nada tunnel. It's only 1 lane wide so you have to make sure nobody if coming the other way.

Our fearless leader.

Nada tunnel.

Not a dragon trip but you have to bring car bling anyway.

20th anniversary of the S2000.

Deer

 

It's a little creepy when you're working in the yard and look up and see these guys staring down at you.

Mom and fawn looking at me from the front yard and with the big ears they hear every little sound you make.

This deer is letting me know what he thinks of me taking his photo.

Wildlife part 2

 

One of our watch frogs that live on the deck on the back of the house.

A busy day in the front yard.

One of the few events during the covid lockdown. Jets doing flyovers at various places around the area.

One of the more interesting things I've seen the geese doing, it was raining and the mother goose used her wings to shelter her goslings.

We always have geese on our pond but ducks are a bit more rare to see, I have no idea why.

Sometimes things are looking up and sometimes looking down.

Backyard wildlife

 I took lots of photos during covid but somehow didn't post any so now it's time to catch up for the last couple of years. 

As always we have lots of deer in the yard during the winter, we usually put corn out for them to eat.

Everything else in the yard, including the squirrels enjoy the deer feeders.

Normally you see deer running around or standing in the yard but every now and then you look out and find one just sitting and relaxing.

Not exactly "in" the yard but I could see it from the backyard.

Just outside the kitchen windows.

We don't see them often but there is a family of muskrats living in the pond.