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The other day my husband and I jumped in the truck to go watch the sun set over Lake Michigan. It was really cold out, but the truck was warm. We took lots of pictures and just watched the waves rolling in. Mesmerizing. We feel very fortunate to live where we do.
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From a walk out to the Big Sable Point Lighthouse. We turned a one hour walk into a three hour slog, but it was worth it! I love living here.
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My husband and I like to go out to the state park to walk the trails. Coming back along M-116 it was dark over the lake except for a band of light along the horizon and breaks in the cloud cover with sunbeams hitting the water. Food for the soul stuff.
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I love walking along the beach in the winter.
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Stopped by the lake to take a picture for later and brrr! it was so cold!
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Practicing my big skies.
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I’ve been trying to get more exercise lately. It’s part of an overall push to get healthier. Less sitting. More greens.
To that end I’ve begun to walk along the beach in the mornings. I leave the dogs home, since they’re not allowed there, which means that I can just worry about myself for an hour or so.
I drive out to M-116 which is the access road to the Ludington State Park, and then I start my beach walk a half mile north of where I started the previous time I went, crawling over whatever dunes are between me and the water. Then I go north for a half hour before turning around and heading back again. I take pictures, make a note of the songs or parts of songs that I hear in my head, pick up trash. Today I thought, I’ll make a sculpture of whatever I find today on the beach. That’ll be fun. But by the time I was back in the car, with a shopping bag full of crap, I’d lost whatever enthusiasm I had for the idea.
You’d think that on a beautiful beach like this one, with a lake view that goes on for miles, people would pick up after themselves, but you’d be wrong.
There was a sculpture made of driftwood and what looked like random trash right at the place where I turned around this morning. I don’t know who is making them, but I’ve seen a couple in the past few years.
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I have questions, though, such as, do they, the creator(s), then come and disassemble it and throw the trash away? Or does it all come apart on its own and the trash go back to being trash and not part of a sculpture? Or is it comprised of their/her/his own trash that they bring to the beach in order to sculpt with it?
Maybe it’s just my inner curmudgeon asking. In the meantime, I’ll continue to pick up stuff as I walk along, even though it pisses me off that I need to. Knee bends are good exercise, too, you know.
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This is a portrait of me and my husband from a selfie I took a while ago. We were out walking around Magoon Creek, which is about a half hour north of where we live along Lake Michigan. It’s a really pretty spot to wander in, with a wooded area, a creek and then a long strip of beach. It was late fall when we were out there, pre-pandemic. The sun was shining in our faces, the wind was blowing. It was a glorious day.
Later, after I stopped recording the time lapse of this piece, I ended up overworking it and lost whatever likeness I’d achieved earlier. Sigh. It happens. Just means I need to do more of these and more often.
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Making an effort to do more daily paintings. Check out my Youtube page for more time lapses.
Those Clouds Look Interesting, soft pastel on sanded paper, 12×12″.
This one is inspired by a drive back from the Ludington State Park where we’d dropped off our camper for some friends of ours to use. I said something like, “Those clouds look interesting,” and Steve promptly pulled over so I could get some pictures. Next day I pulled them up on my computer and made a painting.
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