Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: Sign

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A reminder--not that anyone likely needs it--that tomorrow's election day in the States. And if you happen to live here in Eaton County: Yeah, vote for Bob. He's a good guy.

Got together yesterday, using Zoom, with three folks I used to work with. In more normal times we'd likely have gotten together in downtown Jackson, at Jackson Coffee. We've been getting together every couple weeks for several years, now. Since we live in four different towns, no location's going to be convenient for everyone. We meet in Jackson because we like the coffee house. Reason enough, methinks. Anyway: This is the view from one of the Jackson Coffee windows. 'Tain't pretty, obviously; but it's interesting. Mayhap another iteration of Bright Walls will pretty the place up.

There's a historical marker in Jackson's Bucky Harris Park; it talks about the original settlement at what was then called Jacksonburg. The town's central square was apparently about where the park is. One of the buildings on the square was the Stone Post Office , which was built in 1839 as the Blackwell Building and originally housed a general store. It must have been quite imposing to find this structure as you crossed lower Michigan on 1839's primitive Territorial Road . Notice the remnants, here, of an earlier, less ambitious, mural project. I can't find anything about that project, though at least one of the artists is still active in the Jackson area. You might hope that someone will restore the building--it's currently a warehouse used by Casler Hardware, to which it's attached. The paintings could certainly stand some touchups, too.

One more monochrome from that parking lot in Charlotte. I've shared this photo before. In color.

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Grand Ledge, Michigan.

In the campground at Cheboygan State Park.

Charlotte, Michigan.