Lost in Space

Lansing, Michigan's Board of Water and Light's Erickson Power Plant, in Delta Township.

Neat! My "most interesting" photos, as figured by Flickr & delivered by the Scout at fd's Flickr Toys . Whatever Interesting means; the more I study the daily "rankings," the less I understand them. Nonetheless, these are certainly among my best, so I'm not complaining. Lake Michigan | Setting Sun | Farm & Trees | Cathead Beach | Cathead Bay | Upper Falls | Sturgeon Bay | Horizon Sturgeon Light | Illinois Sky | Algorail | Color Source | Big Carp River | Fog at Bridge | Rest Stop | Flag Day Gulls | Lee Tregurtha | Ready for Anything | Seney | Beautiful Day | JOD Stadium | Northbrook | Pond Firefighter Cabbies | Waiting for a Plane

My colleagues were having some difficulty....

Finally, the twenty with the most views. Come back in a year, and we'll see how things change. fd's Flickr Toys makes this little documentation project possible. Crib | Lake Michigan | Algorail | Light of Kewaunee | Big Sable Clouds Over Cathead Bay | Cathead Beach | Setting Sun | Seney | Northbrook Algorail @ Port Huron | Beach Scene | Arthur Anderson | Firefighter Cabbies | Rest Stop O'Donnell Stadium | Farm and Trees | Ready for Anything | Maple Leaf | Big Carp River

And here's the "Most Interesting" set. Lots of water in my most popular pictures.... Thanks, again. It's nice to know folks care. fd's Flickr Toys , again. Clouds Over Cathead Bay | Setting Sun | Cathead Beach | Seney | Northbrook Gulls | Algorail | Big Carp River | Farm and Trees | Rest Stop Beach Scene | Beach @ Sturgeon Bay | Firefighter Cabbies | Illinois Sky | Upper Falls Waiting for a Plane | Pierhead Light | Flag Day | A Beautiful Day | O'Donnell Stadium

Your favorites, as measured by most faves, for 2005. This set has between 3 and 28 faves.... Thanks, all, for looking! fd's Flickr Toys , of course. Lake Michigan | Algorail | Setting Sun | Clouds Over Cathead Bay | Cathead Beach Gulls | Seney | Northbrook | Big Carp River | Waiting for a Plane A Beautiful Day | Rest Stop | Flag Day | Farm and Trees | Illinois Sky Corrente | Cave Point Park | Painesdale's Champion | D'Rays Dugout | Leandro Tracks to the Horizon | Ready for Anything | Ashtabula

CSL's Louis R. Desmarais--now known as CSL Laurentian --northbound on the St. Clair River at Port Huron, Michigan, in June of 1999. The old Blue Water Bridge is in the background, and the new bridge is under construction just to the north. Yes, she was bright red. There's enough paint scraped off that hull to cover a small house. Mine, for instance. The name change was concurrent with a major rebuild; Laurentian has a very different bow, and hardly looks like the same ship. I liked this version better, but my opinion really doesn't matter. Shot with my Nikon N90s.

Joan and I went to a friend's retirement party last night. When we got home, we discovered the town's power had failed. Power failed a bit before 4 pm; returned between midnight and 1 am. The cause was apparently a car crash in or near Sunfield, about 4 miles down the road. The barely-visible plant deserves a mention. It was a gift from my co-workers the week of my heart attack, and is now a year old. And I'm a year older. That's good. Fortunately neither of us had had many drinks at Elfie's party; when the power fails, nothing in this house works. And for the record: Consumers Energy's automated problem-reporting system is absolutely infuriating. Scads of menues, and no information whatever. No apparent way to get a human on the phone, either. Their website's not much better, and wasn't available to me anyway.

Our front-yard birdbath. Taken moments after this picture .