Ah, The Good Ol' Days

If I were to write a story-
from the days of my youth
every line 
would be filled with things 
I still treasure today.

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Point Iroquois Lighthouse

I admit I'm not really a winter person, but how can you not admire a gorgeous winter view?

SEPIA SATURDAY

Alan has offered clotheslines, pegs, or laundry hung out to dry,
 and etc. as our theme this week.

Photo taken sometime in August of 1937 in Winton, Mn.

While a post about clotheslines could prove refreshing, our subject stirs emotions from my childhood so, I'm opting for scenes from a distant yesterday.

I'm the child in the mixed plaid ensemble while my sister and father are still wearing their pajamas. The place, a friend's cabin in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and my daddy's smiling even though moments before this I used up the only loaf of bread to feed the ducks.  Oops.


They say we are what we eat, well I like to think we create what we see.

Photo information here.

Or maybe not, since I've yet to draw nude pictures.  But wouldn't you agree that this poster from sometime around 1936 appears more like something we'd see today? 

I've concluded my love for art arrived by mixed channels growing up.


Loving animals came from an early age.

Mickey, my beloved first dog!

Animals were a major part of my childhood, and many of my relatives drove around town with a bumper sticker that read, Drink Milk.




Growing up in Michigan is where my love for automobiles and other means of transportation began.

Michigan was known for their auto-industry, but also,

father and son pictured here with a creation from their two man plant that they operated in Bay City, Michigan.  They were pioneers in the auto trailers using yacht construction methods.  Messrs, Kaunetz in Bay City, Michigan.

"The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles."
Raheel Farooq


Growing up in a small town rarely did we meet a stranger walking down the street, and folks always stopped to chat.

This photo above was taken well before I was born, but it's a perfect example of my first hometown of Mason, Michigan.  Funny thing Mason still looks pretty much like that today. 

Mason, Michigan seen here, my first library and love for courthouse buildings, and the town as it is today viewed here.


Of course, there's my love for water and lighthouses too.

"This couldn't be just a lake. No real water was ever blue like that. A light breeze stirred the pin-cherry tree beside the window ruffled the feathers of a fat sea gull promenading the pink rocks below. The breeze was full of evergreen spice." - Dorothy Maywood Bird

(Yes, just as I remember it.)

"Big Red" South Pierhead Lighthouse, Holland Harbor Michigan.

Eagle Harbor, Lighthouse.

"You are the spiritual entity
 that emerges out of the material networks 
in your head."
David Brooks



I can't forget those trusty tugboats.

Tugboat Edna G. Two Harbors, Minnesota

As a little girl admiring and learning all about Lake Superior, I had no idea that I'd one day I'd make my home in Minnesota.




Not everything or every place is picturesque in Michigan today.

Abandoned and quietly sitting in Rural Michigan

It's always a treat for me to come across old service stations no matter where I am.