Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Cherry Point Farm and Market

Cherry Point Farm and Market is located in Oceana County in west Michigan, on the shores of beautiful Lake Michigan. The area is known as Little Point Sable and it is the place where sun, sand and water have come together to create a bountiful farming area as well as one of nature's greatest play grounds. Every year people come from all over the world to swim, sail, fish, hike, ride and walk the dunes...relax or play hard...and to visit Cherry Point.
Cherry Point Farm and Market is a well known landmark. For over fifty years, four generations of the Bull Family have welcomed visitors to the farm. From a modest card table along the roadside Cherry Point has grown to a destination for the whole family.

http://www.cherrypointmarket.net


Fresh produce stand

Fresh cherry pies cooling

Garden and labyrinth outside the market


Kite Flying at the Lake

If the wind is just right, kite flying on Lake Michigan is great!

Friday, October 19, 2012

History of Little Sable Point Lighthouse



Located in Oceana County, the Little Sable Point Lighthouse was built in 1874 and once looked very similar to the Big Sable Point Lighthouse near Ludington. Both towers stood 107 feet tall, both were constructed of brick, and both had a third-order Fresnel lens (a lens named after its inventor which focuses the rays into a horizontal beam for much more efficiency than a reflector system). The Big Sable Point tower deteriorated and eventually was covered with steel plates, but the tower at Little Sable Point still looks much as it did 120 years ago.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012