odd and end photos that I think are cool -

from orchid show in St. Louis - 

collage from beach walk on Friday

the water was so still on the Lake I caught the reflection of the c
clouds 

thunder head moving east - you could see lightening
dancing in the cloud

Feathers, gulls and sunset, Lake Michigan Friday 3/16

Went for a long walk on the beach. I was joined by fishermen, and lots of families walking children and dogs. We had a beautiful sunset. The lake was very calm and flat but to the south east huge thunder head clouds were building. On the way home they gave quite a display of lightening.  

Port Washington to Muskegon

The sun rose right with only a puff of wind. We were going to leave and quickly got gear stowed away and started out.

First there was the gauntlet of fishing boats to get through. We motored a good 6 nm before we had enough room to put up the sails.

The wind was right were they said it was and we were on a beam reach 4+knots.

We were visited by a very tiered little bird. It stayed around for awhile then flew off south.
A freighter passed us by - it looked like it had a house on the aft section and you can see it in the picture.  Sunset was beautiful and we had a 99% moon. Ten miles from shore we appreciated the moon light as we had dense fog, Luckily it burned off a mile before the entrance to Muskegon Lake. Found our mooring and grabbed on first try. Home, we left at 8AM CST and arrived 11:45pm EST sailing 95% of the way.

our visitor- anyone have an idea what kind of bird it is? I could not
find it in my book.

I might have been out in the sun to long but this looks like a
cow to me- no I did not hear it mooing. :)

The shadow looks a little like a moose- ok, it was a long day.

We are home now- going to do some short trips and get ready to pull Cool Hand out for the season.