A few alternate shots at each other

A few alternate shots at each other

These photos are an interruption in the series of photos from the August 28 ride.   This cemetery is a mile northeast of Martin in Allegan County, Michigan.   This afternoon I rode here to look for a different gravestone than the one pictured.   I eventually found it (and found it before the rest of the afternoon [...]

Tillers and Rakers

Tillers and Rakers

It took me a while to find these photos, but an article by Mark T. Mitchell over at Front Porch Republic (Farmers Ditch Tractors for…Oxen?) reminded me that on one of my rides past the Tillers International site north of Scotts MI, I had seen oxen at work.   A New York Times article (On Small [...]

Not a BLT

Not a BLT

This photo may have been taken on U Drive in Schoolcraft Township, Kalamazoo County, just west of the place where the road curves to go around the lowland around Gourdneck Lake.   I say “may” because it was taken in May 2007, before I had a GPS to keep track of where I had been.   I [...]

A boundary that didn't matter

A boundary that didn’t matter

No Dig, No Fly, No Go : How Maps Restrict and Control. That’s the title of a new book by Mark Monmonier that I’ve just barely started to read. The introductory paragraph made me think (in a contrary way) of the leftmost of the two points circled in white on the above Royce Map of [...]