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Between Worlds

Between Worlds

In May, I spent some time in an expansive dunescape on Michigan's western shore. Silver Lake Dunes is an exciting place near the small town of Mears, Michigan. "Expansive" is quite a relative term, though. If you look for it on a map of Michigan, it is just this tiny...

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On Delusion of the Senses

On Delusion of the Senses

This is another aerial photograph, a nadir view, of the Silver Lake dunes in Michigan, taken at about 200 ft (61m) AGL. I admit I didn't see the shape of a human head when I first saw it from the air, but there was certainly enough intrigue about these patterns in the...

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Silver Lake dunes

Silver Lake dunes

I just returned from a short 4 day trip out to Michigan's west coast with a couple of primary goals in mind.  The first was to visit the Silver Lake sand dunes, which after 44 years in Michigan, you would think I had been there already.   As a matter of...

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