Locally in Central Wisconsin today, January 23, 2002,
there is a 1/4" of snow on the ground.
Bare enough that there was a grass fire in the county.
Cold now, single digits this week.
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I'm intending to buy a digital camera, and was wavering between a semi-compact coat-pocket size, or a Fuji Finepix 2800 with 6 X optical zoom lens for about $90 more. I do love that telephoto for trains and wildlife photography. Have to sell some old stuff to afford such a new 'toy'. Either camera would only be 2 mega pixels. Big enough for web work and small prints. I will take fewer 35mm slides, and make up for it with about 5 times as many poorer (non-sunlit) images with digital. Maybe in ten years the price of digital SLR bodies will stabilize lower and then I might be able to use my 20-year-old SLR lens.
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As usual, I suggest using View / Full Screen to see the big pictures below.
Twenty five years ago...... I had vacation time to use up within the calendar year. I always worked too much. And we were too busy with Summer construction at the paper mill to suit a summer vacation. So here it is the last week of 1978, December 27th, a Wednesday. And good friend Larry is back from the West Coast. Here we are at the Straits of Mackinaw, Michigan.
The ferry Chief Wawatam came surging south over the swells of the Straits.
The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island shimmers in the frosty air.
The temperature was near zero. This might be a telephoto lens picture,
200mm with 3 X extender = 600 mm, on sandbags on car roof. I think Larry was
was wisely tucked in the warm car while I was outside taking pictures.
This thing was a coal burner!
Coming closer to Mackinaw City, the south side of the Straits.
And then the SUN comes out as the Chief bears for the ferry slip.
A Detroit & Mackinac engine unloads the ferry.
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After Sunset, we're waiting arrival of the ferry at it's northern terminus in St. Ignace, several miles away across the Strait. The ferry slip is left of the Soo Line Depot.
St. Ignace, Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Many years later, the wife and I were honeymooning on Mackinac Island. In Octoberrrr. After two days of 7-course meals and luxury, we had a craving for.....McDonald's. Which was the first place we went after arriving in Mackinaw City. It sure tasted good. And they had these big poster-size pictures of the Chief decorating the walls. I took a slide of this Winter Ice scene.
Waupaca and Marshfield plan to display also.
I have no plans to display there, but will visit.
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Rice Lake, Wis, has a mall show February 8-9. I won't get there.
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Madison has a big show February 15-16. Also seems that should be the weekend for North Freedom Snow Train.
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posted January 23, 2003