The Lower Michigan Post

This past weekend my husband and I had to go to Lower Michigan.  It's a fun trip, and I love road trips with him, so the drive went by quickly.  But the place we had to go to is just about directly half way if we were to drive around Lake Michigan.  We live in Milwaukee and if we were to drive the southern route and go through Chicago, it'd take us about 20 minutes less than if we went the northern route through the U.P.

While we were there I feel like I had my camera strapped to me the entire time.  There were lots of neat photos just waiting to be taken....and here's a few of what I happened to shoot.....

The blossoms were gorgeous!

The bees were just sitting quietly on the blossoms and enjoying themselves.  I somehow feel this is a male bee, sitting on his recliner.  Comfy, yes.  Food, yes.  Have to fly around, nope.

The morel mushrooms were towards the end of their season, but a few were still out.  Cody found the only one of our hunting party.

This poor little dandelion went bald before all the rest.

Once again, these photos are completely unedited and taken with my Nikon D7000 and a Nikkor 18-105mm lens.

The one with the railroad.

As I left my parents house last weekend, the sun was just starting to rise. After about a half hour on the road I came to a crossing of railroad tracks and the sun looked perfect shining on them, and on the melted and re-frozen snow. This photo is unedited and au natural. I'm thinking of turning the sky purple just for fun. What would you do to this photo? Serious edits, fun ones, maybe photoshopping a starfish in there just for kicks?

The one with a face off

This morning there were 67 turkeys that trotted and strutted out of the woods. The toms were fun to watch.... And there was a buck that was out trying to get some of the leftover corn when the turkeys decided to go for a second helping. It was an all out face off between a whitetail and about 35 turkeys.


It worked out well for a couple of minutes before the deer decided that was enough and went back up the hill and disappeared in the woods.


At one point there were 4 toms out in the yard, 2 of which strutted together for quite a while before running after a couple of hens down by the lake. Aren't they pretty? And I haven't even had a chance to edit these photos yet.