Apples

Dan and I were pleasantly surprised at all the different crops grown in Michigan. There were apple and cherry orchards everywhere and rolling hills of vineyards. We were told they are also the asparagus capitol but that this year because of the early warm up in March that when it came time to harvest the asparagus the migrant workers had not arrived yet and they had to plow under half of their crops.

A light house located in Grand Haven, Michigan.  The day was pretty grey with a few glimpses of sunlight and the wind was brisk, the water was much rougher but there were still crazy people surfing.  I wish we had been there in the evening when the lights would of been on but that will have to be another trip.

Liquid gold

The eagle has landed

  A hodge podge of images along Lake Superior, we started out in Ironwood, MI and went to Copper Harbor the first couple of days.  Copper Harbor is the fartherest north location on the upper pennisula, not much there though.  We have found that most of the Michigan tourism companies tend to exaggerate ....a lot!!!

  I haven't done very good about keeping up with the blog but we have been going until dark, then getting supper and showers, by then we are exhausted.  The fall colors haven't been very good, the locals say it was a very dry summer here also and that it really effected the trees. There were a lot of disappointed people on "fall colors" tour buses.  The weather has been perfect, the highest temperature we have had is 65 degrees, there have been some very overcast days which didn't help in the photo department but we still have had a great time.

Lake in the Clouds in the Porcupine Mountains

 These are a few of the photos I have gotten uploaded, we will have tons to go through when we get home.