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Waldameer would have opened yesterday. Michigan's Adventure would have started its season (apart from the partial day for school trips) today.
Let me give you a little more photography of the flooding around Lansing, which again is just regular ordinary sorts of flooding and nothing catastrophic the way they're suffering up in Midland.
To the River Trail! This is part of it along the Grand River running through the heart of downtown. There is, trust me, more river than should be out there.
... All right, Capital City River Run, that's ... kind of you to share I guess?
Me: Ooh, look at that! You can see where the flooded river washed mud all over the deck! I've got to get a better picture of that.
[ ten seconds later ]
I fell in the mud!
Anyway, there's the waters running so close to the edge of the dock that it looks almost like a rendering error.
Whatever this thing is for, it's got a lot of water all over it!
Look, it clearly says ``Water Trail''.
Fine weather for the ducks!
Ducks: We agree!
So here's a rare non-Silver-Bells-era photograph of the Batman building. Well, the Accident Fund Insurance building, but, the building for our local opens of Batman The Animated Series.
Other ducks from the ones we were looking at earlier. I checked.
Pedestrian bridge between the parks on either side of the river; you can see the big square things that light up at night to give it a nice weird look.
And a view of the Grand River from the Saginaw Street bridge. Looking south. You can see the three smokestacks that have somehow, in like the last 25 minutes, become the beloved icon of Lansing.
Walking back down; here's part of the playground area at the Lansing Lugnuts' ballpark.
They've got the place all ready for the baseball season, just in case it happens.
The Lugnuts have had this logo forever but, boy, does putting it next to ``2020'' seem a little on-point.
Plaque commemorating the park's original identity (and, really, quite good name) of Oldsmobile Park, back when they were still building Oldsmobiles, which were a Lansing specialty.
Oh yeah, the park was also where the Lansing Ignite, a minor-league soccer team, played its first season. Also unfortunately its only season; they announced even before the pandemic that they just weren't going to continue.
From the florist's: Hey, its the guy from Love Is ...! And he's wearing clothes!
Trivia: In 1860 New York City manufactured about two-fifths of the clothes of the United States. Source: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, Edwin G Burrows, Mike Wallace.
Currently Reading: Rising Up from Indian Country: the Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago, Ann Durkin Keating.
