The Bennett Farm

Found in the Bennett farm's granary. Presumably this once lived in the front yard; I'm guessing in the 80s but don't remember it.

Two generations of alpha cats at Joan's mom's. Romey's pretty tolerant of the kitten....

I've shown you this structure before. It still hasn't fallen. We're all amazed. Same photo in color .

Another version of the same photo. Also available in B&W .

A change of pace from the flowers and snaps. Joan and I visited her mom last weekend, then wandered the farm. Joan took along her new Nikon 1; I just carried the Cybershot.

Joan's mom's cat.

Several cats in Joan's mom's back yard, shot through the kitchen window. There's also a lot of lawn damage from burrowing animals....

Joan's mom's cat, Romeo. Romey likes attention. A lot.

The view from Joan's mom's yard earlier this evening.

Joan, and Joan's mom, at the farm.

At the Bennett Farm.

The title explains most everything: Here's Joan's mom, and one of the farm kittens. I began the day (2/4/12) by shooting more or less random photographs in the house and through the windows, none of which I really liked (well, on Valentine's Day I'd post a fine pic of Joan from this session). On my morning trip to the Thriftway I spotted the lined clouds over the Spitzley house, and took several differently-framed pix. One of those became the daily post. ========== Later in the day we visited the farm, where I took some much-needed practice shots with the phone. On the whole, these were better than the project shots, but since I'd already posted the Spitzley photo they're in no sense outtakes. ========== This photograph is an outtake (not really; see the discussion above) from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 27 Title of " roll :" Around Here Other photos taken on 2/4/2012: 36 Bionic pix, as described above, at the Bennett farm.

Which will put an end to my annual shots of the collapsing structure. He plans to reuse some of the wood for a chicken coop. I'm sure I'll take pix.

Today's Thelma's birthday.

Built from the collapsed/torn down granary.

This is the United States Geological Survey's research ship Grayling . She lives in Cheboygan's harbor when she's not otherwise employed. A year ago today she was there when we stopped by. I notice they're building a new Grayling , and retiring this one. ========== I'd warned Joan the night before that I wanted to take the morning's 366 Snaps photo at the harbor, so we stopped on the way to breakfast. The photo I wanted was of the barge/tanker Great Lakes. I used to see the Great Lakes/Michigan combination in Traverse City with some regularity; lately, we've been seeing them in Cheboygan. Which is where they were for most of our week at the campground. Since I knew they could be easily photographed, I wanted to capture 'em. That pic went to 366 Snaps. We also wandered down to the Coast Guard station, but didn't have a clean view of the cutter Mackinaw. We'd try from a different angle later in the week. And a couple weeks later we'd get real close ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 8 Title of " roll :" Cheboygan Harbor Other photos taken on 8/13/2012: We visited Wilderness State Park, and walked two or four miles in the woods. And I took my favorite photograph for the entire year .

@ Joan's Mom's place, a year and a half ago.