I've lived in Michigan my whole life. So has Garry. Neither of us has ever done a formal "fall color tour" up north. Until last weekend!! We left at noon on a Friday and made some good tracks and saw some amazing color on our tour.
First stop was in Clare at the headquarter store for "Cops & Donuts" for an afternoon apple fritter! After our snack, we walked around the block to the post office and on the way back, discovered this beautiful alley!!
The colors were so vibrant and beautiful!
Behind the Cops and Donuts shop was this giant "donut" decorated wth fancy bunt pans and other types of cake pans.
I loved this one that Garry modeled in for me to imitate the boy next to him!
From a distance, you can't see the detail in these murals but there are tons of old fake gemstones and jewelry glued to the wall as highlights to the design.
This is an old fake, diamond bracelet.
Strings of beads and old necklaces accent the hair.
We did a lot of driving around back roads in Cadillac and saw some great swaths of color and then made a pit stop at this "scenic overlook" on Lake Cadillac before heading to Manistee.
It was a long flight of stairs back up! What's it with me and stairs on vacations lately!!!
Garry took this pic of me enjoying the sunshine and golden trees. It was fairly windy so I was keeping my ears covered with my neck gaiter.
We got checked into the historic Ramsdell Inn, our cute little boutique hotel right in downtown Manistee. We were in the first room on the right on the 2nd floor.
We were walking to the restaurant for dinner and spotted this building with my name on it!! As far as I know, we don't have any close relatives in Manistee...
For dinner, we went to the Blue Fish Kitchen & Bar - a very cool place! We had great food and Garry's Bloody Mary came decorated with a full salad on top!
After dinner, we walked down to the Manistee Riverwalk. It's a boardwalk that runs about 1.5 miles out to Lake Michigan and is mostly lighted. It was dark when we walked it but this pic is from the next morning when we sat a bit on a bench sipping our coffee and eating some muffins we bought at Cops and Donuts the day before!
Our last stop in Manistee was at the lighthouse! We didn't walk all the way out to it because it was really windy and the waves were breaking over the pier. Neither of us wanted to get wet when we had a big day of hiking planned!
We waved goodbye to Manistee and headed a bit south to the Manistee National Park!
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