I enjoy the Great Lakes, small lakes, abundant nature, back roads, small towns, big cities, and sports that our unique state has. I like to share pictures of interesting things I see beyond where the pavement ends. I appreciate when others post pictures or thoughts of the cool moments they experience in every day life. All photos are mine unless noted.
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Last Notes npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Just wondering what percent of the fediverse has viewed the Rocky Horror Picture Show at a midnight movie? #poll npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/116/892/564/533/408/145/original/48582d83395a0326.jpeg npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: I want to know more about Clinton and Dougie. Are they friends? What do they do when they hang out? npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: I’m just scrolling through the timeline after working late and it’s filled with people being open and kind and supportive of each other. You’re all a bunch of good eggs, as my grandma would say. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: “I can’t drive 88.51 km/hr.” npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: That like when Nena converted 99 LuftBallons from metric to the the imperial system. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: It’s 98F / 36.6 C at my house in Michigan so I’m sure it’s worse for all of you. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: I’m just curious. When did you join mastodon? npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: OK, so some amazing guy in Germany posted an album of my old punk rock band on YouTube! Somehow he has collected and posted dozens of rare punk cassettes. I haven’t heard this in years. I have queued it up to “Jupiter, Mars, THC”, an ode to my hippy college astronomy professor. 🤣 npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Sending cool vibes to those in Europe and the US southeast today. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Happy Solstice! npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: The Tiger Lilies have arrived! What do you call these orange road side lilies? Some call them ditch lilies and I’ve heard other names as well. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Nice fall day today for a hike in Michigan npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Thanks! I’m excited because PT starts in 2 weeks and includes rowing. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: #SilentSunday npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: As the dunes have shifted over time, this tree manages to live standing on three feet of exposed roots. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Sunlight from a setting sun travels horizontally through 2 inches of water flowing over a small dam and is refracted and focused into a thin golden line on the floor of the channel. Swirling water makes part of the focused light beam slightly distorted as it reflects back to your eye. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Testing a theory. You have three cookie options in front of you. Which do you pick? #poll npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Time to move on npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Happy Friday! npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Home at last npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Thank you all for the new photos today. I see that everyone’s gardens seem to doing well right now. Here is another one from the home front: the first pea! The PT today said that walking to the garden and picking vegetables is the best thing I can do for the next few months. That works for me. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: That’s great news for her! I have a feeling she will have that award-winning smile on her face again soon. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Ok, so I’ve been in the hospital for a few days and may be here a few more. One thing that has helped out has been seeing your pictures, so please send pictures of whatever your pets are gardens are up to! npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: I often stop to rest at the top of this hill when I’m riding because it has a great view. Some people in the mid 1800’s had the same idea first. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: What ever happened to Kajagoogoo? npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Orioles still in town npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: A few years ago I started taking a note on my phone whenever I would think of a crazy story from my life. I have over 100 now. My hope is that when I retire I write them all as short stories. Here are a few working short story titles: npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: I always make exceptions for scones and pie. 😀 npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: I’m sorry you get so many. I see everyone else has already given you great advice. I will just say that I would never privately ask you for money. However, if you ever have an extra scone that nobody else wants… npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: My bike ride just got ominous. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Do you have any songs/albums that you strongly associate with a time of year or weather? Ever since I was in high school I have a strong urge to put on The Ramones’ Rocket to Russia on the first warm day of the year and drive around with the windows down. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: It’s starting npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: The birds are back in town! Some of the 20 bird songs I’m hearing right now. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: This npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: End of the road… npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: those are really cool clouds. I’m not surprised after those rain storms that blew through. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Apricot blooms npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: for some reason I immediately thought of this Generation X album cover from my youth with a young Billy Idol. All coming at the camera with the same sense of purpose and same white background as your cat photo. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Thanks, I had never seen that one. He was one of the all time great guitarists but I feel like it was overshadowed because he also happened to be the all-time greatest Prince. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: #SilentSunday npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Spooky Aurora npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: That’s cool! After he was done riding it did he pick it up, pick it up, pick it up? npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Liz Phair had a song on my favorite kids album of all time…a bunch of alternative/punk bands playing covers of cartoon theme songs. Sublime playing Hong Kong Phooey? Check. Ramones singing Spider-Man theme? Check. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: I agree, filling yourself with enough poison to kill a tick when they bite you seems like it is not a well thought out plan. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: We have the same situation. First warm day and they are all over the dogs and us. We have little plastic tick hooks which are very good at pulling them out, but we’ve found nothing that stops them. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Let her know her brother up north says hi. I’ve been wondering about her lake. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: What would you compare your fediverse mutuals to? #poll npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: #TeamBog npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: the trick is taking pictures for 30 minutes to get the “right one”. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: #SilentSunday npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Sand covered ice blocks on the shore of Lake Michigan npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Cassiopeia in fuchsia npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Final rays from the last 2026 winter sunset last night npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Unfrozen Sunset npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Purple and green aurora tonight! npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: River, working the crowd to get pet at the Alzheimer’s Unit Dog Show today. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Sign that the local lakes are unfrozen npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: I hope you have backup plans npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: what a cool place. Another 100 picture day? npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Time to channel my inner Joe Strummer #punk #clash npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: exactly! npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: I used to work in Ann Arbor and every afternoon a student would dance down the street and when he did everyone along that side of the building would stop working and text each other “Dancing Guy is here!” npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: some days it’s 4 or 5, but when the world gets magical with snow, or ice, a beautiful summer day, or a good sunset I can rattle off 100 or more. Sometimes I’ll take multiple pictures of one thing hoping one of them is in focus. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: “just hit ‘Enter’” npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: I was helping a younger colleague with a presentation today and said “Put a carriage return there” and with all honesty they responded with “I have no idea what that means” npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Ah, the comforting sound of generators rumbling in the cold, Michigan night. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: I just realized you got so many good pictures tonight. That seems like a magical night with perfect ice. I’m placing the over/under on photos taken at 158. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: wow. I’m a geek for good icicle photos and that one is the best with the backlighting against black. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: it’s finally calm here. Sounds like you’ll have the rain on the tin roof all night. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: wow, that sucks. Just looked at radar and that whole area is bad. Looks like a tornado is south of the lake right now. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: it was suddenly 22C /72F today, so we are now in officially in full-blown tick season. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: This Downy Woodpecker let me get very close. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Hyacinths npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Oh, look. It’s something green popping up and it is lit by the sun! npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: lol…Garbage Apple Crisp needs its own entry in a recipe book npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: #SilentSunday npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Thanks, I have now downloaded, and as others note it has good trail mappings. Even including some trails that are my own personal shortcuts that probably came from my Strava data…. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: I noticed that all of you north and east of the lakes got the same storms. I’m glad your power stayed on. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Ready for his pets npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: I feel for the people in SW Michigan who suffered the worst loss. Our radar had some storm cells heading straight north crossing with another going east, so there was a lot of rotation and strange weather. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: That first photo is incredible, and what a happy dug in the bookstore. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Something I love about the fedi is that you feel the rotation of the earth. I wake up at 5 am and my feed is filled with realtime chatter from my European mutuals, not filled with random algorithmic schlock from times and places unknown. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Indicated tornados on the radar all around right now. Spring has spring, I guess… npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: good point. I just finished the 4 part Nova series where they covered the 300,000 year history of humans and it struck me how early on we all got together. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Your dogs are the latest in an unbroken line of about 5000-10,000 generations of ancestors who successfully lived with humans. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Peace npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: very nice. All our snow is gone today so maybe we will start having things pop up soon. Or we will get another snowstorm. One or the other. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: a boost for the story and a like for the pie picture. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: good for you for getting out! npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: #BloomScrolling #SubversivePositivity npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: that’s really cool npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: #SilentSunday npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: I’m not 😀 npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: #SilentSunday npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: And….the snow is back. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: I want to give a shout-out to some of the accounts on my home instance, toad.social, who provide insightful news and commentary about the world and politics. I don’t boost politics much from this account, but they are great follows. npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Future crocuses npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: is it good? npub1xfvufdrlql6n4yuc3f75s0n9ys2uush36956z620uk99pju7uz5stccqs4 Michigander :toad: Yes, the best thing I can think of is to just copy names when I’m thinking about it. The thing is, there are 100s. Here are just a few follows that can add positivity to your timeline.
