1947, snow in Grand Rapids and a summer trip to the UP: Lake of the Clouds, Pictured Rocks, Wakefield, and then Pinconning

There are a few pages in the photograph album dedicated to the late 1940s. The Hon family was then living in the St. Clair Shores, MI, area. In spring 1947 they visited Grand Rapids, maybe for Easter? During part of summer, June and July 1947, they drove to the Upper Peninsula, and hiked to the Lake of the Clouds and at least drove past Pictured Rocks, viewing them from land. There are no car ferry images this time, although they must have taken one as construction on the Mackinac Bridge had not yet begun. As they came home, they stopped for a break in Pinconning, MI.

"All aboard for St. Clair Shores", heading home from a visit with the Hipps in Grand Rapids.  Uncle Cliff, Mom, Aunty Phyllis, Grandma Hon in the Ford, Spring 1947, taken during inclement weather.

Aunty Fran, Uncle Cliff, Aunty Phyllis, spring 1947 Grand Rapids

Snowfall, Grandma Hon in a high hat, Aunty Phyllis "ready to dash inside", 1947

A trip to the Lake of the Clouds, in MI's Upper Peninsula (UP), June 1947

Aunty Phyllis with Grandpa Hon who is writing on birchbark

Grandpa and Grandma (with tall hat again) Hon, Mom called them "the two Swiss mountain climbers"

The Lake of the Clouds

Looking tired, Mom, Aunty Phyllis, Grandma

Grandpa, Aunty Phyllis, Grandma, "resting after the climb" at Lake of  the Clouds, 1947

Miners Falls, (by Pictured Rocks) UP MI

Grandpa "plucking" iron ore off an iron ore train car, Wakefield, MI, June 1947

Picture Rocks, near Munising after their car broke down, July 1947.  Unidentified people. Mom noted that somtime they would have to see the view from boats. I do not think they ever did.

Aunty Phyllis in the car on the way home in Pinconning, north of Bay City, July 1947

Mom in the car on the way home in Pinconning, July 1947