Rail trails, Back roads and a Tank

[February]

High winds here today and didn't feel like getting sand blasted so skipped the beach and decided to take a leisurely cruise through the back roads and rail trail by my home.
Back roads with very little traffic:


A section of the Hart-Montague Rail Trail:

The rail trail connects to a new outdoor recreational area my township built containing baseball and football(soccer) fields, tennis courts and more. Last two photos here are just before you return to the rail trail from the recreational area. Met a couple out cycling and we chewed the fat for a while. They were each riding a white Euphree brand Ebike.

And a Veterans' memorial in the nearby Village of Shelby, right across from the rail trail. A lot of people were out on bikes and scooters. It was a fun ride.

 

[EMGX]

Nice, wife was there a couple weeks ago visiting her sisters (thought of by me as Selma and Patty) and friends in Michigan.

 

[February]

Michigan has such beautiful sights. Sooner or later I will return to Silver lake state Park to take photos of the Dunes. Used to climb and run down the big Dune At north beach park in Spring Lake. About a decade or so ago, they banned climbing or walking the dune and planted beach grass on it(Shai-Hulud would not approve!). Silver lake is kinda the opposite, those dunes keep swallowing up homes every year or so and this is where the big boys with big toys congregate. Injuries and deaths galore, but not to worry orv fans, they aren't shutting down the ORV area ever. It's too popular and too much of a money maker. It draws Orv fans from around the nation. Michigan can be pretty awesome. Still, 10 cold summers in a row now. I pine for the brutal, hot, muggy summers of my youth here. Not nearly as humid and boggy as the deep south, but up until the last ten years, it was always an innocent pleasure to watch people from the west try to escape the heat by seeking out shade and then watching the confusion set in as they tried to figure out why they were still sweating bullets in the shade. I miss those hot, muggy, Michigan summers.