Max Headroom Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Michigan's Upper Penninsula http://www.uptravel.com apparently. I'm assuming it's like the Malvern Hills. Only bigger. And a wee bit less tame. Trevor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Looks very picturesque.....I'm sure the dogs would love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 (edited) Beggar the dogs I think I'd love it too 'Cept the bugs Edited August 16, 2016 by perdu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Thank god someone else asked first.....I've been 'biting my lip' for several posts! Me too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Thanks Debs for saving me from doing the same. Interesting looking area after a google around. I've long been a Great Lakes fan after reading "Paddle to the Sea" as a kid, one day maybe. Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy Bird Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 If you live there, you get to be a Yooper! Cheers, Bill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted August 17, 2016 Author Share Posted August 17, 2016 I'm glad that Madeline (Madeleine?) was nice and snug - and, presumably - warm at home, then . Madeleine (after her namesake) is being watched by my sister, KR, who's pretty fond of her. As is anyone worth knowing. I've long been a Great Lakes fan after reading "Paddle to the Sea" as a kid, one day maybe. Well, I live within walking distances of one (Lake Michigan, the nicest one), you're always welcome to visit. Looks very picturesque.....I'm sure the dogs would love it. It is, very. We turn off the GPS and navigate by map -- there are few roads, so it's tough to get lost. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelglue Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Well, I live within walking distances of one (Lake Michigan, the nicest one), you're always welcome to visit. If you invite one you have to invite us all, Edward. I would argue that Huron is gorgeous, but I've only seen 3.1* of the Great Lakes at water level. I've flown over Lake Michigan everytime I've flown, and it is captivating from X altitude. Returning from the West coast of Canada, we flew over the northmost part I've ever seen and it left me wanting to explore that area. The multitude of bays, islands, and what looked/seemed like secret getaway spots left me feeling like adventure MUST be had there. *While Lake St. Clair doesn't register as one of the 'Greats' with an average depth of 6', is is still part of the system. Fed by the St Clair River and Draining into the Detroit River. I grew up in St. Clair Beach and so feel compelled to share this fact that it is the 6th Great Lake. Something something models? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted August 18, 2016 Author Share Posted August 18, 2016 If you invite one you have to invite us all, Edward. Any of you are of course welcome to stay at Manse Procopius (Hedgehog Manor, out of Mrs P's earshot), which is conveniently situated two minutes' walk from the train into Chicago and conveniently near O'Hare (but NOT Midway, which I'm royally sick of driving to). And I work but a brisk five-mile run from the Shedd Aquarium and Field Museum, which I know because I've run it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Pretty (totally TBH) confident they wouldn't let me in the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted August 18, 2016 Author Share Posted August 18, 2016 Pretty confident they wouldn't let me in the country. You can't leave me hanging with a statement that nebulous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 I have somewhat reduced its nebulosity.....Not all of my decisions in life have been entirely brilliant shall we say, although most of them were fun and some of them very enlightening. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted August 18, 2016 Author Share Posted August 18, 2016 Is this a subtle way of telling me you fought for the Sandinistas? Listen, I like The Clash as much as anyone... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 We had The Clash playing in the 'dog-limo' on the way down to our local walking spot by the Severn this afternoon.....But yeah, that sums it up well, that's exactly what I did and I lost too. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted August 21, 2016 Author Share Posted August 21, 2016 Back from Michigan and Wisconsin by way of the last coal-fired steam-driven car ferry on the Great Lakes (by special Environmental Protection Agency dispensation as a historic land...water...mark). More later, including, if you're very unlucky, a slightly elegiac short essay on the USA's rural Midwest. But that will require Mrs. P (and Winston) giving me some free time. Ha. Ha. Hahahaha. The Badger, belching thick smoke as she raises steam. The Family Procopius, descending Sleeping Bear Dunes. This is a 450-foot vertical climb, and I used to be able to run up it. Carrying Winston, I about died. Fun fact: I am a huge fatty and currently weigh 74 pounds more than Mrs P, a difference that is greater than half of her actual weight. I will be eating nothing but bread and water for a time. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephLalor Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 (edited) The Family Procopius, descending Sleeping Bear Dunes. This is a 450-foot vertical climb, and I used to be able to run up it. Carrying Winston, I about died. Fun fact: I am a huge fatty and currently weigh 74 pounds more than Mrs P, a difference that is greater than half of her actual weight. I will be eating nothing but bread and water for a time. I like the shirt design, the Great Lakes basin I do believe. My sole experience of them so far is the waterfront in Toronto. Edited August 21, 2016 by JosephLalor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted August 21, 2016 Author Share Posted August 21, 2016 I like the shirt design, the Great Lakes basin I do believe. My sole experience of them so far is the waterfront in Toronto. Correct you are. I've been to every lake in the system at one time or another (occupational hazard of growing up listening to Stan Rogers songs); some are greater than others. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted August 21, 2016 Author Share Posted August 21, 2016 Wait, what's this! 20160820_224911 by Edward IX, on Flickr Black on black. Like, none more black. First coats of Alclad Black primer, thinned with Gunze-self-levelling so that it doesn't totally suck (and to keep it from clogging my noble airbrush). No points for guessing where my fingies were during the spraying. In retrospect, I should have waited to do that wing, but the self-leveller makes the Alclad primer dry very slowly. I decided to just go ahead and lay down the primer and fix any egregious mistakes once I'd done that, rather than endlessly faff about with only a few minutes per night to myself, if that. 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 Black suits the Hunter so well. There's a touch of Darth Vader about it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blogs On Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 Indeed it does! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 Call the Mods,someone's posted a plane thingy on this discourse of life, the universe and everything. Black is a very good colour for a Hunter Fine family you have there PC. Never had the pleasure of the Great Lakes but have sailed along the St Lawrence and experienced 'that' waterfall tho Trevor 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 Great shot of the famille Procopius out looking for worm-sign. That Hunter looks very much to me like it's current livery is that of House Harkkonen. Hope you all had a smashing trip PC. Tony 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 Nice looking black things PC - sartorial and aerial! Great family shot too, one to treasure. One small point; "a huge fatty" should possibly be revised as, otherwise, I would have to find new terms for my physique and the English language, rich as it is, does have limits. I stopped comparing my weight with Mrs B's ages ago as she, with persistent dietary effort, is still the same weight as she was when I married her over thirty years ago. I, however, have 'matured' like a good wine and gathered the trappings of a Western lifestyle, both material and physical. I'll have you know that a bald head, greying beard and, um, girth is a sign of great wisdom in some African tribes. In addition, and according to some TV charity ads, you can still provide water to a whole village for under £5 a month! Time to move, perhaps... I would have considered the 450' vertical climb and stayed at the top reminiscing, probably with some alcohol, but that's probably just me... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 Phew, you managed to save some of the plastic from the creeping mists of Alclad-Gunzery And obtained a lovely seam-gone look such as I always wishes I could have. Great family shot on the big sandy sand mountain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 Wow. Dare I say it about the beloved Hunter but it does have a touch of evil about it in black. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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