In late September 2021, my dear friend the Dr. Rev. Col. S. "Roux" Rousseau, Esq., visited Grand Rapids. We had a great time visiting casinos, drinking fine adult beverages, and conversing about the important things. Part of our time was spent at the Frederick Meijer Gardens -- and a selection of my photos from that excursion are represented in this gallery.

My friend Mel and I enjoyed a walk around the East Paris Nature Park, a small park just off a state nature trail along the southern periphery of the City of Kentwood. It was a nice, short walk filled with a lot of plant diversity -- and Mel let me try her macro lens, too. W00t!

Some select images (taken with iPhone 12 Pro) from an overnight backpacking hike (May 22-23) with my friend Scott. We started where No. 10 Road crosses the NCT just north of the Harvey Bridge parking lot, and camped at Highbank Rollway. 

My brother and I did the 21.4-mile Fife Lake Loop hike (with a night at a state forest campground) over a chilly September weekend.

I walked the outer loop (including a section of the NCT), good for about 4 miles and a handful of lovely images.

I went for a walk along the Yellow Trail of the Millennium Park system in Kent County, Michigan. A scant 5.5 miles later, I had some lovely new pics to add to the pile.

My friends Brittany and Mel took at walk at the Grand Ravines park in Ottawa County, Michigan.

I went to lovely Bonaire (Caribbean Netherlands) for a week of scuba diving in the middle of a Michigan winter.

In the heat of a Texas summer, I visited some friends at their quaint little city just north of Dallas. These shots were taken around the Square.

A walk in downtown Marshall, Michigan.

I documented a brief walk around a golf course (I worked there, in the summer of 2000) that, last year, closed and is now allowed to grow wild as part of a new nature preserve in western Grand Rapids.

The Kent Trails system around Millennium Park offers a great variety of Michigan ecosystems observable from the comfort of a modest paved trail system.

Some of the animals outside the Caffeinated Press office door, at our HQ in the Ken-O-Sha Professional Building along Plaster Creek.

A session with my friend Mel, just walking along the Boardwalk in downtown Grand Haven, Michigan.

Mid-Michigan in summer, adjacent to the lakeshore. Ludington State Park offers unimproved trails along marshlands and deciduous forests. This photoset grabs some of my favorite animal captures.

Images from my solo four-night trek to Isle Royale National Park over Memorial Day weekend, 2013.

A peaceful winter walk among the dead, in a tiny rural cemetery with roots stretching back two centuries.

Camera-phone photos from a jaunt around Red Rock Canyon, a side excursion during the Las Vegas trip for the Snyder wedding.