Great Lakes Freighter- complete with mirageWhat? It's WEDNESDAY already??? No April fools here. Well, that pretty much sums up my week to this point. It's already midweek, already April and I'm still on March business.
Last weekend we went downstate to do an art show and for some reason it really kicked my butt physically and mentally; it took me three days to recover. We also found out the hard way how much lower Michigan is hurting economically, beautiful show,easy set up and load out, beautiful venue, very low low attendance with very few people buying much of anything. This hasn't been the norm to this point, so, I just rechecked our season and we are spread out pretty good across the midwest.... whew.
When doing art shows, especially slow ones, some quotes from people you interact with are memorable. My favorite from this past weekend was, "Were you THERE when you took the picture"? I paused for a moment, thought how many different ways I could answer that, then rather to confuse... just replied, .... "yes".
We figured since we didn't bring the camera, some spectacular photo op would materialize at some point in the trip. The most memorable was on the return trip going over the Mackinaw Bridge and seeing the ice chunks breaking up, along with a freighter on the open water sailing into the distance. Yep, freighter season is now again open, and I look forward to them returning to the Marquette docks.
This time of year you get some wild distortions of freighters on the horizon, especially when the temps warm up and the lake is still very cold. Mirages occur and the freighters take on ghostlike appearances. I've seen it where the freighter mirage actually flips over so you see an image of the freighter upside down-directly on top of the actual freighter- lots of funny distortion too from the mirage. Here's a couple freighter mirages, and will try to find the one as described above.
Yes, this is a great lakes freighter smooshed by a mirage
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