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Ahhhhh, there are so many things I love about Michigan, and BLUEBERRIES  is one of them! I love blueberry season around here! It might be that there are some really terrific farms close by (versus strawberry farms which seem highly commercialized and hard to find).  Dexter Blueberry Farm is basically blueberry heaven. I stayed on top of the season this year and was anticipating opening day.  We ended up going four (or was that five) times, each time picking between 12 and 18 pounds of berries.  No matter the poundage, we always came home with three pails--one was to keep in the fridge for a snack for the babies or to add to oatmeal, one was for immediate baking, and one was for freezing.  Seriously, it became a production line when we would get home, rinsing the berries and getting them where they needed to be.  In the end, it felt like we had SO MANY BERRIES, but as I have been going out to the freezer and pulling out yet another bag, I wonder why we ...

Yay! I'm so thankful we have discovered the fun and magic of Michigan lighthouses.  Visiting them gives us a purpose to a road trip and allows us to explore a bunch of fun things along the way. And Coco.  This was her maiden voyage with the family!  I mean, this is the entire  reason I went back to a larger vehicle.  The little babies were in the back and everyone else was up front. Because we've started our trip multiple times now in St. Joseph, we decided to drive a little further north up the coast and begin at Little Sable Point Lighthouse I love this lighthouses for a couple of reasons the main one being that when John and I visited it last October, there wasn't a person there, and we just laid down on the beach in our winter coats and soaked up some fall sunshine.  We might have even fallen asleep ;-). I also love it because there is no pier to access it--it just sits right there on the beach.  And it's made entirely of brick! Howev...