Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: creek

And surrounding farmlands, of course. The drain itself is marked by the trees and underbrush but is not directly visible from this location. Some of the creeks around here have really stupid names.

One last Milham Park photo. Kalamazoo, on Easter Sunday.

The Museum on the left; Kalamazoo Valley Community College on the right. For most of my life, and for decades before I was born, the Arcadia Creek ran underneath the buildings and parking lots in downtown Kalamazoo. If you knew where to look there were places you could see the water, but I imagine folks lived their whole lives in Kalamazoo without realizing the town had a downtown creek. In the early 1990s the city daylighted the creek, with this result. Much better, though it's still in a straitjacket. A couple blocks east--past the arches--it breaks free of the channel into a park that serves as a festival site. A great improvement.

Looking west toward St. Augustine's parish from the Cancer Center. For most of my life, and for decades before I was born, the Arcadia Creek ran underneath the buildings and parking lots in downtown Kalamazoo. If you knew where to look there were places you could see the water, but I imagine folks lived their whole lives in Kalamazoo without realizing the town had a downtown creek. In the early 1990s the city daylighted the creek, with this result. Much better, though it's still in a straitjacket. A couple blocks east it breaks free of the channel into a park that serves as a festival site. A great improvement

Here's the Glade Creek Mill in context. The State Park's attractive headquarters building is to the left of the picture, and the creek is dammed below the HQ building to create what was once a swimming pool. This is the actual view when you come up the Sewell Road from our cabin. To my eyes, a very attractive place. When we first started staying at Babcock, the HQ building housed an excellent restaurant, with a selection of well-prepared dishes. A couple years later the restaurant's quality had significantly deteriorated, and eventually the effort failed. The former restaurant's now been occupied by the park's gift shop. That used to be your corner-of-the-building collection of t-shirts and ashtrays; now it's a fairly serious place with interesting things. Joan picked up a calendar; I bought a book. This photo is best LARGE .

South of Bellevue, Michigan. Michigan Audubon's annual CraneFest is next weekend . During October, Big Marsh Lake is one of the premier places for watching Sandhill Cranes. Around sunset thousands of cranes gather at this lake. Taken from the Kiwanis Youth Area a couple years ago. No cranes in this picture, but some time ago I posted another view which hints at the event's beauty.

Explored! #477 on Friday, October 19, 2007, but no longer in the top 500. Thanks! The Narrow Gauge Trail at West Virginia's Babock State Park, in the New River gorge. The tracks were pulled up decades ago, and the trestles have collapsed, but the ties remain.... The Babcock Coal and Lumber Company's Manns Creek Railway carried coal down to the Chessie at the bottom of the Gorge, and lumber to the mill at Landisburg. This track was the coal line from Clifftop; the lumber mainly travelled on the higher track. Photo taken in September, 1998, with my Nikon N90s.

I have a sneaking suspicion that this was supposed to be a photograph of a guppy or a tadpole, or perhaps a miniature catfish. Instead, some wet dirt, and a variety of grasses, moss, and other greenery, and some focal length play. I do like the textures, but all in all it's a pretty strange picture. Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971. =========== Not really related: The hit counter on this photo stream will pass 50,000 sometime today. Who'd have thought?

Near Eagle Harbor, extreme northern Michigan. Considering that the falls are accessible from the highway, that there are always photographers wandering around the place, and the the falls and bridge are quite picturesque, there are really very few photos of the place on the web....

Southwest Michigan's Alex Jamieson swings and misses at a pitch by Lansing's Jordan Timm to end the game, the season, and the Midwest League's Battle Creek franchise. The franchise will move to Midland over the winter, where I wish them all sorts of luck. I'll transfer my loyalties to Lansing's Lugnuts, I imagine, and likely I'll request the seat I took this photo from. But it won't be the same. Original version of this photograph here .

Cedar Rapids manager (& third base coach) Bobby Magallanes chats with baserunner Brad Coon. Meantime, Southwest Michigan pitching coach R.C. Lichtenstein confers with pitcher Wade Davis, catcher Matt Spring, and first baseman Ryan Bethel about the situation. Lightly shopped; the original's here . 3rd inning at C.O. Brown Stadium in Battle Creek, Michigan. I took a couple hundred photographs last night and have posted them on the MWLguide photo stream .

Another photo from the same vacation. That's Redridge Dam in the background. Someday I'll put up a Redridge set, but they need to be better scans than this one. Photo by Joan Bennett Camera: Minolta point'n'shoot

South of Mulliken; with the snow it looks rather more dramatic than usual. I've commented on the way Eaton County treats creeks before .

Fitting in a daily picture is occasionally challenged by everyday life. Last September 6 was the day I came closest to missing my 366 Snaps photo. My brother had a routine medical test scheduled in late morning, so I headed to Kalamazoo in time to get him to the lab, figuring I'd have plenty of time after the procedure to get photographs of the small towns north of Battle Creek. The test didn't go well. Nothing major, mind you, just the sorts of inevitable problems that occur when you spend enough time taking medical tests. Unfortunately it took the doctors and staff hours to make a decision that could have been made in minutes, and we were left abandoned in the hospital's basement being pretty much ignored. By early evening we'd turned pretty hostile, and they let us escape. By the time I'd got my brother home, checked in with Joan, and grabbed a bite to eat it was nearly dark. I honed my small-town list to Bedford, which has an attractive park built around an old mill, and headed there. The mill shot didn't work out--not enough time, or light, and the wrong camera. I did get a workable shot of an old storefront, or perhaps boarding house, which I posted to 366 Snaps. And this unlikely photograph of an ugly bridge across the creek in the mill's park, which is sharply focused and oddly interesting. Definitely not the day I had planned, though. Drove home mostly in the dark. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 6 Title of " roll :" Bedford Mill Park Other photos taken on 9/6/2012: none