Thank you, gramofnine. This looks really wonderful and I will be looking at this site carefully.
Michigan is a beautiful state. My mother was born in Grand Rapids, and when I was a child we spent several weeks every August at my grandparents' house. My uncle has a cottage on Lake Michigan near Holland and I have fond memories of the lighthouse there, the beach, and watching the sun set over the lake. We visited Macinac Island in 1970 -- we went over on a speed boat -- I
remember the loooong bridge. And we went camping on the shores of lake
Superior.
Here in Baltimore, we have hot, humid summers. Every so often a high-pressure system will bring crisp, cool summer weather, low humidity with blue skies. My mother would say, "This is Michigan weather!"
My cousins are planning a family reunion for 2009. I can't wait to take my husband sight-seeing.