The Flickr Saginawbaycitymidland Image Generatr

About

This page simply reformats the Flickr public Atom feed for purposes of finding inspiration through random exploration. These images are not being copied or stored in any way by this website, nor are any links to them or any metadata about them. All images are © their owners unless otherwise specified.

This site is a busybee project and is supported by the generosity of viewers like you.

At a Bavarian-themed tourist attraction in Michigan was a year 2000 stamped in artificial stone. by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

At a Bavarian-themed tourist attraction in Michigan was a year 2000 stamped in artificial stone.

In downtown Frankenmuth, Michigan, on July 23rd, 2023, outside the Castle Shops at the Bavarian Inn on the east side of South Main Street (Highway M-83), north of Covered Bridge Lane.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Frankenmuth (7013937)
• Saginaw (county) (2000992)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• artificial stone (300010788)
• Bavarian (culture or style) (300385972)
• commercial buildings (300005147)
• date stones (300374978)
• stamping (forming) (300053138)
• stores (300005283)
• tourist towns (300122715)

Wikidata items:
• 23 July 2023 (Q69306869)
• 2000 in architecture (Q2813873)
• 2000s in architecture (Q11186432)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• July 23 (Q2722)
• July 2023 (Q61312807)
• M-83 (Q2353710)
• Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI Combined Statistical Area (Q28448661)
• Treat of Detroit (1837) (Q123585629)

DUCKWEED TOURISM in lower Michigan. by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

DUCKWEED TOURISM in lower Michigan.

Yon log would probably have a picturesque frog or bird on it, if I weren't here lurking nearby.

DO YOU SEE the boundary between duckweed and algae, out yonder.

-----------------------

In Bay City State Park in Bangor Charter Township north of Bay City, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, the Tobico Lagoon as viewed from the Tobico Lagoon Trail.

The lagoon was excavated by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1933 and 1936.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay (county) (2000948)
• Tobico Lagoon (2723386)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• Algae (group) (300265695)
• Alismatales (300375491)
• artificial lakes (300263360)
• cultural landscapes (300008932)
• lagoons (bodies of water) (300008679)
• log (wood) (300012784)
• Nymphaeaceae (family) (300375576)
• parks (recreation areas) (300008187)
• summer (season) (300133099)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• algal bloom (Q326139)
• Bangor Township (Q980724)
• Bay City State Park (Q4873966)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• Civilian Conservation Corps (Q1094508)
• Huron/Erie Lake Plains (Q56683276)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• Lemna (Q161207)
• Michigan state park (Q37998944)
• Saginaw Lake Plain (Q56683287)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• Southern Great Lakes forests (Q16201663)
• state park (Q1761072)
• Treaty of Saginaw (Q1572601)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Duckweeds (sh85075955)
• Freshwater plants (sh85051946)
• Lakes—Michigan (sh85074091)
• Parks—Michigan (sh85098169)
• Water lilies (sh85145576)

"Where's Sal?" by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

"Where's Sal?"

Ah!, we have come to the Saginaw River in Essexville, Michigan, to greet the MV Hilke, a cargo ship owned by SAL Heavy Lift GmbH of Hamburg, Germany, a subsidiary of Harren & Partner of Bremen, Germany. The vessel was built in February 2010 by Taizhou Kouan Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. of Gaogang District, Taizhou, China. It was known as the MV Palabora until 2019. We track its location at all times. We like the yellow-gray-and-green of it.

-----------------------

In Essexville, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, along the Saginaw River near Smith Park. Bangor Charter Township is on the opposite riverbank.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay (county) (2000948)
• Essexville (2051853)
• Saginaw (river) (1129356)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• bollards (300001993)
• cargo vessels (300212694)
• industrial landscapes (300253299)
• riverfronts (300008343)
• riverine landscapes (300435110)
• rivers (300008707)
• summer (season) (300133099)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• 2010 in transport (Q10135601)
• 2010s in transport (Q97500663)
• Bangor Township (Q980724)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• coarse woody debris (Q1413705)
• Harren & Partner (Q1586097)
• heavy lift shift (Q1151009)
• Huron/Erie Lake Plains (Q56683276)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• Lake Huron basin (Q63345678)
• Palabora (Q84262331)
• Palmerton class (Q1687915)
• Saginaw Lake Plain (Q56683287)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• Saginaw River (Q455185)
• SAL Heavy Lift (Q2204789)
• Southern Great Lakes forests (Q16201663)
• Taizhou Kouan Shipbuilding Co Ltd (Q106351770)
• Treaty of Saginaw (Q1572601)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Rivers—Michigan (sh85114343)

Personally I like the rustbelt eyesores of Great Lakes waterfronts! by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

Personally I like the rustbelt eyesores of Great Lakes waterfronts!

In Hampton Charter Township north of Essexville, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, the J.C. Weadock Power Plant during its demolition, as viewed from a boat launch on the Saginaw River in Bangor Charter Township.

The plant was operated by Consumers Energy from 1940 to 2016 and the remaining structure was imploded in August 2020.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay (county) (2000948)
• Saginaw (river) (1129356)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• blue (color) (300129361)
• coal-fired power plants (300000434)
• demolition (process) (300053085)
• industrial landscapes (300253299)
• riverfronts (300008343)
• riverine landscapes (300435110)
• rivers (300008707)
• summer (season) (300133099)
• transmission towers (300165443)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• Bangor Township (Q980724)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• Consumers Energy (Q5164746)
• destroyed building or structure (Q19860854)
• Hampton Township (Q5646319)
• Huron/Erie Lake Plains (Q56683276)
• J.C. Weadock Power Plant (Q19375996)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• Lake Huron basin (Q63345678)
• Saginaw Lake Plain (Q56683287)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• Saginaw River (Q455185)
• Southern Great Lakes forests (Q16201663)
• Treaty of Saginaw (Q1572601)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Rivers—Michigan (sh85114343)

MICHIGAN WEIRD AREA at Saginaw Bay with inland lagoon. by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

MICHIGAN WEIRD AREA at Saginaw Bay with inland lagoon.

Saginaw Bay is bizarre!

-----------------------

In Bay City State Park in Bangor Charter Township north of Bay City, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, Tobico Lagoon and Saginaw Bay as viewed from the Tobico Lagoon Trail.

The lagoon was excavated by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1933 and 1936.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay (county) (2000948)
• Great Lakes (7029370)
• Huron, Lake (7020886)
• Saginaw Bay (1113709)
• Tobico Lagoon (2723386)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• artificial lakes (300263360)
• bathing beaches (300008819)
• cultural landscapes (300008932)
• lagoons (bodies of water) (300008679)
• lakeshores (landforms) (300138919)
• Nymphaeaceae (family) (300375576)
• parks (recreation areas) (300008187)
• summer (season) (300133099)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• Bangor Township (Q980724)
• Bay City State Park (Q4873966)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• Civilian Conservation Corps (Q1094508)
• coarse woody debris (Q1413705)
• Huron/Erie Lake Plains (Q56683276)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• Michigan state park (Q37998944)
• Saginaw Lake Plain (Q56683287)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• Southern Great Lakes forests (Q16201663)
• state park (Q1761072)
• Treaty of Saginaw (Q1572601)
• tree stump (Q811646)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Dead trees (sh98006031)
• Freshwater plants (sh85051946)
• Lakes—Michigan (sh85074091)
• Parks—Michigan (sh85098169)
• Water lilies (sh85145576)

I sliced off a slice of the Saginaw River for you to look at. by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

I sliced off a slice of the Saginaw River for you to look at.

I like how some of the dirty riverwater got stranded over here on the riverbank, to stagnate and stink in the summer sun. I genuinely like it!

L@@k at those storage tanks at that asphalt plant across the river!

This is going to be the Saginaw River flashcard for my Flashcards of U.S. Rivers flashcard set.

-----------------------

In Essexville, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, along the Saginaw River near Smith Park. Bit-Mat Products of Michigan, Inc., is on the opposite riverbank, in Bangor Charter Township.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay (county) (2000948)
• Essexville (2051853)
• Saginaw (river) (1129356)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• factories (structures) (300006232)
• log (wood) (300012784)
• riverbanks (300008729)
• riverfronts (300008343)
• riverine landscapes (300435110)
• rivers (300008707)
• storage tanks (300007714)
• summer (season) (300133099)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• Bangor Township (Q980724)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• coarse woody debris (Q1413705)
• Huron/Erie Lake Plains (Q56683276)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• Lake Huron basin (Q63345678)
• Saginaw Lake Plain (Q56683287)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• Saginaw River (Q455185)
• Southern Great Lakes forests (Q16201663)
• Treaty of Saginaw (Q1572601)
• water stagnation (Q3046751)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Rivers—Michigan (sh85114343)

A lake excavated from a marsh in the 1930s has finally settled into a mildly enjoyable okay-lookingness and European-lookingness. by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

A lake excavated from a marsh in the 1930s has finally settled into a mildly enjoyable okay-lookingness and European-lookingness.

In Bay City State Park in Bangor Charter Township north of Bay City, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, the Tobico Lagoon as viewed from the Tobico Lagoon Trail.

The lagoon was excavated by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1933 and 1936.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay (county) (2000948)
• Tobico Lagoon (2723386)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• Algae (group) (300265695)
• Alismatales (300375491)
• artificial lakes (300263360)
• cultural landscapes (300008932)
• cumulus clouds (300404152)
• lagoons (bodies of water) (300008679)
• lakeshores (landforms) (300138919)
• Nymphaeaceae (family) (300375576)
• parks (recreation areas) (300008187)
• summer (season) (300133099)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• algal bloom (Q326139)
• Bangor Township (Q980724)
• Bay City State Park (Q4873966)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• Civilian Conservation Corps (Q1094508)
• Huron/Erie Lake Plains (Q56683276)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• Lemna (Q161207)
• Michigan state park (Q37998944)
• Saginaw Lake Plain (Q56683287)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• Southern Great Lakes forests (Q16201663)
• state park (Q1761072)
• Treaty of Saginaw (Q1572601)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Duckweeds (sh85075955)
• Freshwater plants (sh85051946)
• Lakes—Michigan (sh85074091)
• Parks—Michigan (sh85098169)
• Water lilies (sh85145576)

Down here in delightful Essexville, admiring the summer reflections of cumulus clouds in the puddles beneath the piles of crushed stone at the docks along the Saginaw River. by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

Down here in delightful Essexville, admiring the summer reflections of cumulus clouds in the puddles beneath the piles of crushed stone at the docks along the Saginaw River.

Down here sarcastically describing Essexville as "delightful."

-----------------------

In Essexville, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, at "Wirt Sand and Stone, Inc." and "Saginaw Bay Fertilizer Terminal, Inc.," along the Saginaw River at the north end of Scheurmann Street.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay (county) (2000948)
• Essexville (2051853)
• Saginaw (river) (1129356)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• crushed stone (300011681)
• cumulus clouds (300404152)
• docks (general waterside structures) (300404856)
• domed (300187629)
• fertilizer (300015131)
• gray (color) (300130811)
• industrial landscapes (300253299)
• reflections (perceived properties) (300056034)
• riverfronts (300008343)
• storage facilities (300007700)
• summer (season) (300133099)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• Lake Huron basin (Q63345678)
• puddle (Q152841)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• Saginaw River (Q455185)
• tire tracks (Q42046202)
• Treaty of Saginaw (Q1572601)

As children we used to come down here and identify "favorite" tire tracks, and pretend to "adopt" them and care for them for an afternoon. by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

As children we used to come down here and identify "favorite" tire tracks, and pretend to "adopt" them and care for them for an afternoon.

By "children" I mean "a child" and by "we" I mean "I."

-----------------------

In Essexville, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, at "Wirt Sand and Stone, Inc." at the north end of Scheurmann Street.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay (county) (2000948)
• Essexville (2051853)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• crushed stone (300011681)
• cumulus clouds (300404152)
• gray (color) (300130811)
• industrial landscapes (300253299)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• tire tracks (Q42046202)
• Treaty of Saginaw (Q1572601)

FAMILIAR COMFORTABLE idealization of lower Michigan summer conditions. by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

FAMILIAR COMFORTABLE idealization of lower Michigan summer conditions.

We perceive that the trees here are the "right height" à la ridiculous Mitt Romney, and that the plants are getting the right amount of moisture.

It might be buggy and uncomfortably warm. But maybe not!

-----------------------

In Bay City State Park in Bangor Charter Township north of Bay City, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, along the Chickadee Nature Trail. There is North Euclid Avenue (Michigan Highway M-247).

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay (county) (2000948)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• cultural landscapes (300008932)
• parks (recreation areas) (300008187)
• roads (300008217)
• roadsides (300003889)
• summer (season) (300133099)
• utility poles (300006446)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• Bangor Township (Q980724)
• Bay City State Park (Q4873966)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• Huron/Erie Lake Plains (Q56683276)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• M-247 (Q2355322)
• Michigan state park (Q37998944)
• Saginaw Lake Plain (Q56683287)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• Southern Great Lakes forests (Q16201663)
• state park (Q1761072)
• Treaty of Saginaw (Q1572601)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Parks—Michigan (sh85098169)
• Roads—Michigan (sh2006003094)

These blocked-in windows are *OUR* 1880s! by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

These blocked-in windows are *OUR* 1880s!

These blocked-in windows are ARE [sic] 1880s!

-----------------------

In downtown Bay City, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, Jake's Bar at the southwest corner of 3rd Street and Saginaw Street.

The building, at 114 Third St., is a "contributing property" to the Bay City Downtown Historic District, 85002338 on the National Register of Historic Places.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay City (2051247)
• Bay (county) (2000948)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• bars (commercial buildings) (300005158)
• brick (clay material) (300010463)
• commercial buildings (300005147)
• gray (color) (300130811)
• historic buildings (300008063)
• historic districts (300000737)
• oblique views (300015503)
• paint (coating) (300015029)
• purple (color) (300130257)
• remodeling (300135427)
• segmental arches (300001059)
• semicircular arches (300001062)
• side views (300264743)
• three-story (300163795)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• 1880s in architecture (Q60996911)
• Bay City Downtown Historic District (Q48814951)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• contributing property (Q76321820)
• Jake (Q16277266)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• streetcorner (Q17106091)
• Treaty of Saginaw (Q1572601)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Brick walls (sh85016796)

Good wall of motel, 1960. Concrete blocks with triangular protusions. by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

Good wall of motel, 1960. Concrete blocks with triangular protusions.

Presently the wall is done up in an attractive beige paint!

-----------------------

In downtown Bay City, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, the "Budget Inn of Bay City" at the northwest corner of Washington Avenue and First Street. It was built in 1960 according to the Bay Area GIS Viewer.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay City (2051247)
• Bay (county) (2000948)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• beds (site elements) (300239937)
• beige (color) (300266234)
• blank walls (300002474)
• concrete blocks (300374976)
• freestanding walls (300078898)
• geometric patterns (300165213)
• Mid-Century Modernist (300343610)
• motels (300170888)
• openwork (300253899)
• paint (coating) (300015029)
• peeling (300054127)
• projecting (300010286)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• 1960 in architecture (Q2812256)
• 1960s in architecture (Q11185676)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• Treaty of Saginaw (Q1572601)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Concrete masonry (sh85030722)
• Geometry in architecture (sh00000156)

I love to go downtown to see the weird buildings! by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

I love to go downtown to see the weird buildings!

Looking at all the weird buildings is one of the things I most enjoy about living in the U.S.

-----------------------

In downtown Bay City, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, a building at the southwest corner of 5th Street and Washington Avenue.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay City (2051247)
• Bay (county) (2000948)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• architectural ornament (300378995)
• beige (color) (300266234)
• brick (clay material) (300010463)
• brickwork (works by material) (300015333)
• brown (color) (300127490)
• central business districts (300000868)
• commercial buildings (300005147)
• exterior walls (300002523)
• oblique views (300015503)
• projecting (300010286)
• rectangles (300055636)
• remodeling (300135427)
• squares (geometric figures) (300055637)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• Treaty of Saginaw (Q1572601)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Brick walls (sh85016796)

At a pro wrestling venue in Michigan during the disastrous summer of '20 was this poignant "tough times don't last long" aphorism on a letterboard. by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

At a pro wrestling venue in Michigan during the disastrous summer of '20 was this poignant "tough times don't last long" aphorism on a letterboard.

I love diagonal wooden siding!! The bedquilt-style paintjob will be perfect for this.

Concerts etc are also performed here but I know it mostly from pro wrestling events.

It was originally the Empire Theater. Five of the six letters of "Empire" were rearranged to spell "Prime." According to the Bay Area GIS Viewer it was built in 1947, but elsewhere online it said to have opened in 1948. It operated as a theater until 1979 and later was a nightclub. It became the Prime Event Center in 2008.

-----------------------

In downtown Bay City, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, the Prime Event Center at the northwest corner of Washington Avenue and 2nd Street.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay City (2051247)
• Bay (county) (2000948)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• aphorisms (300253001)
• capital letters (300055061)
• diagonal (300010276)
• grayish brown (300127528)
• letter boards (300395518)
• marquees (300003170)
• entertainment buildings (300007206)
• flags (300195678)
• orange (color) (300126734)
• paint (coating) (300015029)
• repainting (300260743)
• repurposing (300417716)
• scaffolds (300022259)
• siding (300014861)
• spheres (geometric figures) (300055639)
• telephone numbers (300435688)
• theaters (buildings) (300007117)
• white (color) (300129784)
• wood (plant material) (300011914)
• yellow (color) (300127794)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• 1940s in architecture (Q60996001)
• 1947 in architecture (Q2811921)
• all caps (Q3960579)
• area code 989 (Q4788625)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• COVID-19 pandemic (Q81068910)
• Facebook (Q355)
• flag of the United States of America (Q42537)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• name change (Q84590041)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Theaters—Michigan (sh2003009951)

I document the special "pandemic seating" ideas from the summer of '20, on streets temporarily closed to autos, in U.S. downtowns. by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

I document the special "pandemic seating" ideas from the summer of '20, on streets temporarily closed to autos, in U.S. downtowns.

Folks are excited to get back to normal and bring back the cars!

-----------------------

In downtown Bay City, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, on the north side of 3rd Street, west of Saginaw Street, in the Bay City Downtown Historic District, 85002338 on the National Register of Historic Places.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay City (2051247)
• Bay (county) (2000948)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• blue (color) (300129361)
• canopies (structural elements) (300069732)
• central business districts (300000868)
• chairs (furniture forms) (300037772)
• decorations (ornamental works) (300379003)
• decorative lighting (300191314)
• historic districts (300000737)
• outdoor furniture (300165810)
• outdoor lighting (300052025)
• pennants (300195680)
• stains (damage) (300379497)
• streets (300008247)
• string lights (300434004)
• vinyl (300014502)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• Bay City Downtown Historic District (Q48814951)
• bunting (Q3774971)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• COVID-19 pandemic (Q81068910)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• pop up canopy (Q7229097)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• Treaty of Saginaw (Q1572601)

Transportation Research Thesaurus terms:
• Street closure (Cratutts)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Streets—Michigan (sh2001006444)

See the WEIRDLY BROAD SHADOWS OF UTILITY POLES that are cast upon the north elevations of the buildings in downtown Bay City, during brief times of day in the summer months. by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

See the WEIRDLY BROAD SHADOWS OF UTILITY POLES that are cast upon the north elevations of the buildings in downtown Bay City, during brief times of day in the summer months.

See GLANCING SUNRAYS RAKE the repetititve protrusions of these rusticated concrete blocks in dark blue paint. See them do that!

-----------------------

In downtown Bay City, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, off the west side of Saginaw Street, north of 3rd Street.

The building is a "contributing property" to the Bay City Downtown Historic District, 85002338 on the National Register of Historic Places.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay City (2051247)
• Bay (county) (2000948)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• commercial buildings (300005147)
• concrete blocks (300374976)
• dark blue (300129621)
• exterior walls (300002523)
• historic buildings (300008063)
• historic districts (300000737)
• oblique views (300015503)
• paint (coating) (300015029)
• rustication (300080140)
• shadows (300056036)
• trash cans (300197614)
• utility poles (300006446)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• Bay City Downtown Historic District (Q48814951)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• contributing property (Q76321820)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• rusticated concrete block (Q48795875)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• Treaty of Saginaw (Q1572601)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Concrete masonry (sh85030722)

A low evergreen shrub with summer weeds, among typical architecture of Bay City Michigan. by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

A low evergreen shrub with summer weeds, among typical architecture of Bay City Michigan.

I think the weeds are prettier than the ornamental shrub. Everytime I go to Bay City I end up emotionally exhausted from having to look at this style of architecture everyplace.

-----------------------

In downtown Bay City, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, outside an office building on the east side of Adams Street, north of 7th Street.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay City (2051247)
• Bay (county) (2000948)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• bluish green (300128625)
• brick (clay material) (300010463)
• brick red (color) (300311462)
• circles (plane figures) (300055627)
• cream (color) (300266242)
• evergreens (300132417)
• office buildings (300007043)
• paint (coating) (300015029)
• paver (material) (300259727)
• piers (supporting elements) (300000953)
• pilasters (300002737)
• purple (color) (300130257)
• reflections (perceived properties) (300056034)
• shrubs (300132407)
• summer (season) (300133099)
• venetian blinds (300204075)
• windows (300002944)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• ornamental shrub (Q41705489)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• Treaty of Saginaw (Q1572601)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Office buildings—Michigan (sh2008002547)
• Urban plants (sh85141312)
• Weeds (sh85145920)

Are we happy with the decisions the tile installers made about which tiles would be red! by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

Are we happy with the decisions the tile installers made about which tiles would be red!

If you were in charge, how many of the red tiles would you have placed elsewhere in the grid? Tell which ones, and where you would have placed them, using complete sentences.

-----------------------

In downtown Bay City, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, at the northwest corner of North Water Street and 3rd Street, outside "St. Laurent Candies---Nuts," a/k/a "The Nut House," a/k/a "St. Laurent Brothers."

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay City (2051247)
• Bay (county) (2000948)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• candy (300250954)
• ceramic tile (300010678)
• Mid-Century Modernist (300343610)
• red (color) (300311118)
• specialty stores (300005364)
• white (color) (300129784)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• Treaty of Saginaw (Q1572601)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Candy industry (sh85019582)

Weird and beautiful "wall hangings" of plantlife. by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

Weird and beautiful "wall hangings" of plantlife.

These vines' unusual clumpy-lookingness gives them a lumpy-lookingness that is weird and beautiful.

-----------------------

In downtown Bay City, Michigan, on July 31st, 2020, at the backside of buildings on the east side of Adams Street, south of 3rd Street.

The building with the vines is currently owned by the City of Bay City and was built in 1946, according to the Bay Area GIS Viewer.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Bay City (2051247)
• Bay (county) (2000948)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• back views (300264745)
• commercial buildings (300005147)
• concrete blocks (300374976)
• dark pink (300126067)
• doors (300002803)
• exterior lighting (300052025)
• exterior walls (300002523)
• lighting fixtures (300180081)
• paint (coating) (300015029)
• pale blue (300129645)
• peeling (300054127)
• summer (season) (300133099)
• vines (300132406)
• Vitis (genus) (300389835)
• weathering (300054115)

Wikidata items:
• 31 July 2020 (Q57396837)
• 1940s in architecture (Q60996001)
• 1946 in architecture (Q2811895)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• July 31 (Q2715)
• July 2020 (Q55281154)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• Treaty of Saginaw (Q1572601)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Concrete masonry (sh85030722)
• Grapes (sh85056460)
• Urban plants (sh85141312)

Salt River floodplain of ferns and invasive garlic mustard in east-central Michigan in spring. by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

Salt River floodplain of ferns and invasive garlic mustard in east-central Michigan in spring.

Wow but I wish there were two or three times as many of the ferms, growing so closely together that the ground would not be visible anyplace.

-----------------------

In the Pine Haven Recreation Area in the Au Sable State Forest in Jerome Township in Midland County, Michigan, on May 18th, 2019, along the "Salt River Loop" trail.

Soils here are predominantly Sloan series Mollisols (Fluvaquentic Endoaquolls) per the 1979 soil survey of Midland County.

-----------------------

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Au Sable State Forest (2140062)
• Midland (county) (2000979)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• flood plains (300132330)
• Plantae (kingdom) (300132360)
• spring (season) (300133097)
• temperate deciduous forests (300387649)

Wikidata items:
• 18 May 2019 (Q57350132)
• Central Michigan (Q2945568)
• clonal colony (Q611804)
• county park (Q5177940)
• ferns (Q80005)
• Huron/Erie Lake Plains (Q56683276)
• invasive plant (Q3391537)
• Jerome Township (Q6182944)
• May 18 (Q2576)
• May 2019 (Q47087597)
• Mollisol (Q1063188)
• noxious weed (Q7067310)
• Pine Haven Recreation Area (Q66551123)
• Saginaw Lake Plain (Q56683287)
• Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area (Q28448661)
• Salt River (Q66553526)
• secondary forest (Q2140056)
• secondary succession (Q3710494)
• Sloan series (Q66501527)
• Southern Great Lakes forests (Q16201663)
• state forest (Q7603683)
• understory (Q422666)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Cutover lands (sh85034993)
• Floodplain forests (sh97004101)
• Floodplain plants (sh85049163)
• Garlic mustard (sh2007020039)
• Parks—Michigan (sh85098169)