Grace Highway

Last November 22 was Thanksgiving. Since Mulliken's Thriftway would be opening late, I headed to Marko's in Sunfield for my morning RC Cola fix.

On the way out I took Grace Highway, a nearby road I'd never travelled before. I came back via McWhorter, another nearby road I'd previously managed to ignore. I took a few pix, of course....

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When the road that's become M-43 was first built, a swamp at the township line forced a roadbuilding detour. Thus Grace Road, down the middle of Roxand Township's section 7. And thus the twisty section on Dow. The swamp's still there, but they've long since built the road across it. And Grace remains.

Anyhoo, I was driving along last Thanksgiving, listening to Kyle Cantrell and IIIrd Tyme Out on SiriusXM, driving down this unfamiliar road. The road's a skinny little thing from pretty much nowhere on the east end; its west end's at Centennial Acres Golf Course.

On Centennial Acres, on Thanksgiving morn, I found a golfer out on the links. Din't get his photo, though....

Here's an 1873 Eaton County map that shows the swamp detour--it's near the top of the map, right at the Roxand/Sunfield township line.

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The 366 Snaps photo was of Hoytville. I'll talk about that a bit more in one of the other outtakes.

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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.

Number of project photos taken: 19
Title of "roll:" A Foggy Morning
Other photos taken on 11/22/2012: I took the FujiFilm along to my aunt's in Schoolcraft, still getting familiar with a camera I'd not used in years.I'm counting one of those pix among these outtakes.