Monday, October 20, 2008

Mushing through Michigan

Marquette, MI is full of very old buildings including this giant one near downtown (the rain was pouring!) -



and hundreds of rotted piling stumps, remnants of old piers - none of which exist today.




Farther east, driving to Munising - yet another sculpture park . . .






Some personal statements. The sign above the pig reads, "Genuine North American Corporate Greed PIG" with an Enron logo on its side. The sign beside the little man figure in pig poop, reads, "Average American Worker (2004)".



And this one says, "One more fight over there and I'm drop'in ya's".



The beaches at Grand Marias, MI (Lake Superior) have beautiful soft white sand blown into small dunes. Thin grasses grow on the mounds - the wooden walkways make it feel like east coast ocean beaches.


The wind came up and it started to rain again. Just as I was leaving the walkway, I noticed someone had carefully made Michigan's shape, both the upper and lower peninsula, with rocks in the sand.

By night, I made it to Saint Ignace, MI where multiple points of land (Michigan's two peninsulas) meet Lake Huron and Lake Michigan.







2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The iron sculptures are very interesting and I especially like the evening picture of the lighthouse!
Arlene

Betty Clark said...

I liked the pig!

Fun.

Betty