Joel Dinda's photos

Though it's quite finished as a flower, this still-leaved stalk is really quite attractive.

There's more character in this building than a simple garage deserves. It's larger, and far heftier, than the house it serves....

Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam; 1971. All I can tell you for sure is that this hut was on the hospital complex. Camera: Minolta SR-T 101.

Northeast on Bridge Street, from the bridge across the Grand River. My favorite of the local small towns. I never lived in Dimondale, but for years I had a Dimondale mailing address. Somehow the village has maintained its small town feel despite its near proximity to Lansing, and its increasingly suburban citizenry.

John Busack--my predecessor as KBC's president--leads the Class A pack at Spring Valley Park in April of 1975. This was the very first race promoted by the Kalamazoo Bicycle Club, and nearly the last KBC event John participated in before graduating from Western and moving away from Kalamazoo. I think the taller guy behind John is J. Brian Chappell of the Battle Creek Bicycle Club, but don't hold me to that. Kalamazoo Gazette photograph by P. N. Todd. I've severely cropped Paul's original photo, largely because of damage to the print.

Another photograph of Big Marsh Lake from the Kiwanis Youth Area, south of Bellevue, Michigan. No Sandhills in this one, but it came out really well. A similar view from another year, taken with my Olympus.

Petoskey, Michigan, September 25, 2001. Anybody got some duck food? Same duck , same beach, same cheap camera....

Another view of that abandoned house on Dow Road. It certainly looks like it was an attractive place when it was occupied....

That neat conveyor again, and the Ashtabula Coast Guard Station. The entry to Ashtabula Harbor--or part of the harbor, anyway. 1991. Camera: Chinon Genesis III.

This cute little house is down the road a bit from mine. Another photo from yesterday morning's walk in the snow.

M/V Walter J. McCarthy of the American Steamships fleet heads toward Whitefish Point and beyond from the Sault locks in 1990, shortly after she was rechristened. For her first decade or so she was called Belle River, after the Detroit Edison plant she services. McCarthy was Detroit Edison's president; when he retired, the ship was renamed to honor him. Camera: Chinon Genesis III

The cardinals, in particular, are pleased it's there.

A pretty overlook at the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal. Across the road from here .

CP (Soo Line) has trackage rights on the CSX (former C&O, former Pere Marquette) line through Mulliken. Here's a CPRail train kicking up the snow on that line this morning. In a few minutes they'll be crossing the Grand Ledge " High Bridge." Not a great photograph; the foreground's too busy. I took some pix of this train with another camera as well, but we'll have to wait 'til those are developed....

We haven't really had a lot of snow, but it's snowed most days since Thanksgiving. Went for a walk this morning to capture a few (more/current) snow shots. This house is a block or so down the road from mine. You may notice Old Glory on that radio antenna, to the left. It's a couple lots further along.

"Taken Sunday, Nov 3, 1940 at ft. of Riopelle St. Detroit, Mich. Auto Carrier S.S. Coralia" Later the LD Browning . Active until 1955; scrapped 1962. Borucki's Lakers

My green Assenmacher, propped up against a table on our deck. Yes, that door badly needs a paint job. Actually, it needs replaced. We're starting to think the entire garage needs replaced.... And yes, the main tubes on this "green" bike are charcoal grey. Deal with it. This is a technically ghastly photograph, but I like it anyway.

This is CCD Engineering's facility in Mulliken, Michigan, taken the (snowy) Saturday after Thanksgiving. The building housed Merrifield Hardware when I moved to town. CCD rebuilt the place a few years back, but the essential "brickiness" of the building's unchanged. And presumably what they wanted.