It’s Tulip Time in Holland, Michigan and Windmill Island is one of the featured attractions for good reason.
It’s a beautiful and leisurely paved walk to the island which is surrounded by marshes with cattails and red winged blackbirds.
Although tourists and vacationers travel from around the world to visit the island during Tulip Time, it’s an attraction that stands on its own and is well worth visiting any time of the year, especially spring, summer and fall.
One sure sign spring is nearing in west Michigan is that the Foremost’s Butterflies Are Blooming Exhibit is underway. This is one of the most popular exhibits at the Frederik Meijer Gardens, and for good reason. It’s a delightful experience to enter the exhibit and be among fluttering butterflies everywhere. This is the largest temporary butterfly exhibit in the United States.
Joy, that’s what I feel visiting there, I hope you can make it to the exhibit, I think you’ll love it.
For a short time I lived in Washington State when I was a little girl. Other than the rain every day, I remember seeing beautiful rows of trees like this. I was traveling up north on a windy, windy spring day and saw these trees with rows of fruit trees beyond them, just starting to blossom. It doesn’t matter what time of year it is there, it’s always beautiful.
This was one of those “perfect moment” scenes where I was forced by circumstances to slam on my brakes, throw the car into reverse and get the shot. (FYI mom, there were no other cars around.)
I took this photo of an old, old barn on my mid Michigan road trip. Usually when I’m going somewhere, I just want to blast over there in the straightest, fastest route possible. But, ever since Captain Cutie Pie gave me a Garmon GPS, I try to take some extra time and choose the scenic route on the back roads. Why? It’s more fun and now I know I won’t get lost.
Here’s a great drive that I discovered on my way up North, there’s lots of old barns, and beautiful, beautiful farmland. I highly recommend it. Take a look at this Google map I made special for you, it shows the drive, I stopped about 1/2 way up 66, but you just might want to keep going. And for you guys up north, take the drive down to see us here in lower Michigan! More pics of my trip coming next week.
After a long cold winter, it’s so great to see the sun and beautiful Michigan Sky. I took this photo driving through the mid-Michigan countryside. I will definitely be taking this route next time I go up north. Although I drove for 3 hours, it went by fast because the scenery was so stunningly gorgeous. Way nicer than the highway!
I drove up to Synchronicity in Glen Arbor today to drop of my creative work for the summer season. Typically when I go on a trip, I take the most direct route home on the highway because I am notorious for getting lost. I took the back roads and boy are you all in for a treat. I got some great shots of Mid-Michigan farmland. In one of my coming posts I’ll give you some ideas for a beautiful drive.
Typically when I think of taking a picture of fruit trees, I think green leaves and fragrant blossoms or fruit. But not today. The shapes of the trees lined in formation against the blue sky and blazing sun caught my camera’s eye.
Hey, whatever happened to that 60 degree weather we were promised today??? I’m fine with the rain, as long as we get the heat wave along with it. I was hoping for a day that felt like this one. Oh well, I can feel it, spring is in the air.
There’s beautiful farmland everywhere you look in the Sayles Avenue area of Lowell. Here’s a photo I took last week at one of the farms in that area. Soon I’ll show you a photo I took of an old barn from the Civil War era on the same road.
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