Smile

If you know me, you know I love dogs. They have been called “Man’s Best Friend”,  and for good reason. When I come home from a day’s work, there he is wagging his tail, glad that I am home. At least that is what I tell myself, the truth may be that he knows when [...]

The Fairman Block

Hello Sister,
I got the letter, it is a dandy day here and I have made thirty cents this for noon and will make sixty more this afternoon. Got a letter from bro Fred this morning and one from mother the other day. I will answer your letter tomorrow, so good by till I write.
Bro [...]

Great White Trilliums

Have you noticed? The trilliums are in bloom.
Where they grow thickest, you can often see broad stretches of rich, open maple and beech woods carpeted with white, as if someone had strewn popcorn through the hardwoods. Of all the spring wildflowers, the great white trillium is the icon of this time in the northwoods when [...]

Blue Lake

I don’t know how many Blue Lakes are in Michigan, but there are a number of them. The Blue Lake I am going to highlight today is located in Morton Township, Mecosta County. Located adjacent to Round Lake and Lake Mecosta, it is just north of School Section Lake and north east of Canadian Lakes. [...]

Lake Twenty Eight

Lake Twenty Eight is located in Sheridan Township in eastern Mecosta County, just a stone’s throw off M66, south of Arthur Road, just across from Chippewa Hills High School,home of the Warriors.  The lake is about 6 miles south of Barryton, Michigan.  
A  Michigan lake of 37 acres, with reported depths of 26 feet,  Lake Twenty [...]

Paris Park

If you have traveled on old US 131 between Big Rapids and Reed City, you may have noticed this building with the interesting architecture. This is the old Paris Fish Hatchery, now a Michigan historic site.
A sign explains a bit of the history: Opening in 1881, the Paris Fish Hatchery was the state’s second fish [...]

Little Muskegon River

The Little Muskegon River has it’s headwaters in Mecosta County and winds it’s way through three Michigan counties. The river begins as a shallow stream and increases in width and depth as it flows thru Montcalm County and then into Newaygo County, where it becomes a tributary of the Muskegon River at the Croton Dam.
Much [...]