Inverting....

This was a shot of a rubber band laying on the cement shaped like a heart.  Of course I had to take a picture of it.  Then I inverted it and he is the result:

This one can be purchased at:http://shortgirlnextdoor.deviantart.com/

These two are from the last Ludington trip.



This one I liked because as we were walking around the park, I seen that he had a tiny little dog and he was just sitting on the bench. You can see from my view point here, I can't see much about him or the dog. When we got down by him, his dog was a chihauhau with her nails painted pink! When we said how cute, he said "I had nothing to do with that!" Of course not! Your wife/girlfriend just makes you walk her! My husband has to do the same thing with my lil Loula!

This shot was taken as we were walking around the Municipal marina, the water was so calm and the sun so bright and HOT!

We were on our way back to the marina we were staying at after walking to the fanciest restaurant in Ludington, the kind you have to have reservations for, where we ordered only soup! They may not have been extremely happy about the large group whom most of which were drinking, all ordering soup, but let me tell you, the crab bisque at this place is not only worth the walk, but worth making a few people mad!  Needless to say, if your in Ludington, find out what the restaurant is called because I don't know the name, and have the crab bisque!

Left

The newest goal with blogging was to try to get at least one blog everyday, that's how your  supposed to blog. Well it never seems to work out that way for me. So the new plan was to add at least one photo and talk a bit about it. Then there would be a blog everyday!

This photo is call Left and can be purchased on http://shortgirlnextdoor.deviantart.com/

This photo of this abandoned house was grunged up a bit to make it look like a worn out old photo.  I also wanted to make it look a bit spooky, not everyones taste, but this is my favorite thing to photograph.


These chairs I seen outside of an antique store while in Ludington Michigan.  Here I just played with the colors and gave a grainy appearance, again to make it look worn and old.

oops

The other day I was trying to clean up my photobucket account and I apparently deleted some of the photos that were appearing in my blog.  If your reading my blog, you now know the reason why some of the pictures aren't showing up.  Sorry all  :(

Spam fest videos

Saturday at the marina was our 2nd annual spam fest. What is spam fest you ask? One of our fellow boaters, Harlin, thought it would be fun to have a sort of pot luck buffet of food all made with spam in it. Last year was the first spam fest and I have to say the food, all laced with spam, was much improved this year!! My Husbands Spam 4 Cheese noodles won second place! Here is last years video, and it was shot  by Kim: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz-EQbzYNMA . This years was shot by Kim with some help from her husband Rick, and it is also available: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuhWyOL1zfA . Here are the winners--http://www.youtube.com and there are tons of photos of the dishes that I am aiming to get available tomorrow.

A Must see.

We were not able to take our trip down to South Haven so we took this opportunity to see some of the stuff we have never taken the time to see. This is where we started our day:

This is actually where we started at the Great Lakes Naval Memorial & Museum - USS Silversides. We didn't do the movies, we just went into the submarine.


Here are some of the sleeping quarters

A fancy gauge.

Some more stuff I don't really know about.

The USS Silversides is HUGE! It seemed as if every little portal kept leading to another room! The stairs to go down are dangerous, the portals will grab your knees if your short and crack your skull if your tall. It was pretty amazing to see. Then you stop and think about the men and women that join the military and live on these submarines for months on end in these crowded areas and you think to your self, thank you.

So when we finally made our way off of the Silversides, we went over to the USCGC McLANE. The McLane wasn't as big, but 125 feet isn't small! This boat was rather fascinating, we could live on it, with some decorating changes and air freshener of course! We may not need the gun on the front, but Jaden and I had fun for a minute.

I know I look like a dork, but that's not what I am here to discuss!
Here is a sitting/eating room. I am not sure what it is called exactly.

Here are the sleeping quarters for this boat:

This is the hatch that drops from the Helm into the Captain's head, and the rest of the boat so you don't have to brave the treacherous stairs outside while the boat is bobbing up and down!

This is my husband, at home at the helm!

www.silversides.org is the website for the museum in Muskegon, Michigan.

So we left here, and went to what the TomTom said was a "Train Museum". It turns out it was and has been turned into a visitor center.

Right across Highway 31 there was another naval ship we toured as well, but it's new there in Muskegon.

This one is standing on top facing the front of the boat--gives you an idea how big it was.

This was a freezer at one point. It is to the best of my knowledge, that the ship was made into a car hauler to take cars across the lakes, As I had said, it was recently received in Muskegon, and they are trying to put it as close as possible back to original.

Here is the engine room of that ship. It was some pretty large stuff in the tiny room.


We did some driving around the Muskegon area, it's a really pretty city with a lot of history. We left from there and went up to the Whitehall/Montague area. Which I will show later!

Why we didn't go....

So last weekend we head for the boat with thoughts of coasting down the shore to South Haven dancing in our heads. Ha ha! Thursday night we left our house and set off to Grand Haven. We had reservations for a slip in South Haven, which is the 2nd time my husband has made reservations. Checking the weather before we left, there was a chance, a rather big chance, that we might not be able to make the trip due to the weather. First thing Friday morning, my husband and I went and got coffee then made our way down to the beach to see how the lake was looking. The website I checked for wave heights said 6 to 8 footers, but I didn't really expect to see them:


The beach was empty, except for the seagulls, who didn't seem to mind us being there;




It was so windy that when the seagulls would try to run away from the water, they would get all fluffy, which they didn't seem to like, so they would run then turn around very quickly! They were also hoovering in the wind, a few of them right next to us as we were walking toward the shore. Even though our trip was out of the question we had quite an experience on this morning and we had an awesome day just checking out things in Grand Haven and Muskegon and Whitehall. All of which I will talk about later!

Signs, Signs, every where

So I was looking at another blog, and she seems to have a photography group, probably much like the one that I am involved in, in the winter time. Anyway the group has a theme each month or week of things that you go out and find. It just reminded me of some restaurants and signs we found when we went on our Ludington trip. These I found in Pentwater, it was an adorable little town, I would like to visit it again....maybe stop at the "Bitchen Kitchen"

Stop in and have a drink at the Antler Bar with the antler door handle,



This sign I just liked because it had an aged feel to it.

This was a cute little shop:

And they had a great Latte`!!

Of course if we went back we would hope to see this again, and maybe find out if it is advertising for something?


This place is in Grand Haven, we happened to find it the week my son and I stayed at the boat.


The rest of my sign photos are on my back up which is still at the boat so enjoy these ones for now!!