Retired

I've mentioned this before, but:

When I moved to Mulliken, the grain elevator was still functioning and the town could legitimately claim to be a farm community. At harvest time the town would fill with large and small trucks, and of trailers in trains behind tractors. Much the same would happen when the farmers were planting, except they'd leave with seed rather than arrive with grain.

Then the elevator closed, and the farmers took their business to Grand Ledge and Sunfield and probably Woodland.

I miss 'em.

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Mulliken's still surrounded by farms, of course, but many of our neighbors are Lansing-area commuters. Or retired. That, of course, also describes us.

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The beanfield photo (see below) I posted to 366 Snaps was taken at the same time and place; I just pointed my camera a different direction. This photo shows the general layout at the end of Main Street.

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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.

Number of project photos taken: 24
Title of "roll:" Around & About
Other photos taken on 7/14/2012: The Daily Flower Census was mostly daylilies.