The trees are in full bloom at the moment, so I’ve taken a few pictures of some of them to share here.
A photo gallery of some pictures is below (click the first (or any) image to open a larger version in a slide show)
Saturday 17 October was the 2009 Edition of “Making Strides for Breast Cancer” – a 5 km walk in downtown Grand Rapids, starting in Calder Plaza, along side the Grand River, through Ah Nab Awen Park, past the burial place of President Gerald R Ford, past the Gerald R Ford Presidential Museum, the Amway Grand…
8 August was Dinner Club in Grand Haven, and the Del Shannon Car Show in Coopersville (which is on the way to Grand Haven). It was also a day of some not insignificant rain, so we headed out as it looked like the rain was nearly finished, meeting up with Don and Mindy in Coopersville…
From 1-2 February 2011 we had quite a blizzard – not quite an outright record for snowfall – but the official recording at the Grand Rapids airport a few miles from us is 16 inches – second biggest snowfall in a 24 hour period. We did break the records for 1 and 2 February for…
We went to downtown Grand Rapids after Dinner Club at Don and Mindy’s place – a nice 2 mile stroll with Don and Mindy, Rob and Geneann, Bob and Bobbi, Roger and Lisa. 2 cars with chairs, and a drinks cooler had been pre-positioned there earllier so we were all set. We sat in the…
Mid afternoon yesterday the distant sound of a diesel engine alerted me that someone had decided it was time to cultivate the large corn field behind our house. This field was last cultivated in almost the depths of Winter on 21 December 2009 – see this post for images of the 4″ thick ice that…
The following is a photo gallery of the trip to Deer Island.
