Yankee Springs Recreation Area

Yankee Springs Recreation Area is a Michigan wonderland consisting of 5,000 acres of land with lakefront on nine Michigan lakes. All located in Barry County, nine miles east of Hastings.
The area is mainly rolling wooded land filled with marshes, bogs, wetlands and numerous streams, providing home for  Michigan wildlife and a variety of plant life.
Yankee [...]

Michigan Outdoors: A 2008 Retrospective

This little guy appeared as intrigued by us as we were by him—“we” being my friend and fellow storm chaser Kurt Hulst and me.
Kurt and I were on a photo expedition near the Otto Audubon Sanctuary last Saturday, braving the cold in order to take advantage of the afternoon light weaving its magic over the [...]

Moonrise over Gun Lake

Last night, after playing a gig at Gun Lake Community Church, I emerged into the parking lot to see the silvery disc of the Snow moon flying high above the treetops. Filtering its radiance through a veil of cirrostratus, it reminded me that the snowy months are at hand.
“Hunter’s moon,” observed Ken, the tenor sax [...]

September Gold

I recognize this light. It is the mellow light of a late-summer afternoon, the slanting rays that gild the landscape of golden September. Streaming out of the soft blue sky past shining cloud rims, this is the light that burnishes Michigan’s fields and forested hills as lush August gives way to the wise, ancient autumn.
September [...]

Maher Audubon Sanctuary

Tucked away in the southwest corner of Woodschool Road and 108th Street lies one of Barry County, Michigan’s best-kept secrets. The eighty acres of forest, wetland, and upland field deeded as a gift to the Grand Rapids Audubon Club by Dr. James Maher in the late 1970s are miles away from anywhere—and that’s just fine. [...]

Topwater Time

This is the time of day I love—this time right around sundown when the lake waters turn to glass, and the forested shoreline, gilded by the sun’s failing rays, glows gold against shadow-green before deepening into the twilight.
It is topwater time. Magic time.
I am standing on the shore of Hall Lake in the Yankee [...]

A Great Sign

 
This sign has always been one of my favorites. It is found at the Airport Sand and Gravel Company on State Rd, just outside of Hastings Michigan in Barry County.
I like it so much that I am thinking of having our FOR SALE signs redesigned. I need something a little larger than what I have [...]

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