About

I started this blog on impulse because I wanted to write. I used to write professionally, mostly technical stuff. I left that behind several years ago and came to miss the pleasure and discipline of putting thoughts into words. I satisfy that jones here. I write at least once a week, and my favorite topics are:

  • Faith, joy, and personal growth. In my life I’ve struggled and fallen. At bottom, I met God, and realized he’s always had my back. Learning to trust him and rely on him has opened me up to great joy as I travel down the road.
  • My joys. One of my chief joys is to drive two-lane highways, taking in the vistas and the small towns along the way. There’s plenty of nature and history to see. I especially enjoy finding a highway’s earlier path and imagining the time when that path was still vital. I also enjoy collecting vintage cameras and watching vintage television.

I also sometimes tell personal stories and gaze at my navel as bloggers do.

About me: I’m a lifelong Hoosier. Although I grumble heavily through the winters, I would be hard pressed to make anyplace else home. There has simply been too much opportunity for me here!

Photographs: Most of the photographs here are mine. The banner photo, taken in late October, 2006, is along Indiana State Road 47 in Parke County, just east of Turkey Run State Park. The road curves in from the east.

Below, my oldest friend walks along the grass-covered approach to a one-lane bridge that used to carry the Michigan Road across the Tippecanoe River north of Rochester, Indiana.

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This bridge carries Old US 31 across the St. Joseph River near Leeper Park in South Bend. I was fortunate to catch it with its lamps still lit as the sun was beginning to rise.

Leeper Park Bridge, South Bend

As State Road 135 dipped into a hollow near Bean Blossom, the mist in the air that April morning stayed high, creating a canopy over the road and trees. It lasted just long enough for me to take a couple photos. By the time I got back into my car and drove into this scene, the mist had dissipated.

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12 Comments

  • The first URL should be http://www.jimgrey.net/Roads/ (case-sensitive)

  • Looks a lot like Ohio…Funny how all roads look the same. I like the curves and yellow lines..

  • Where have you been lately?

  • michianablogger

    Thank you for your comment. I’m actually looking for more blogs from fellow Hoosiers to link to the scenicmichiana site. I’m very interested in finding colorful places in Indiana and Michigan to photograph.

  • Hi Jim!

    You have a great site here. You are such a loyal Hoosier…and RTV6 viewer might I add. Just wanted to stop by and say thanks for watching! I’m glad you get to see my contribution to the Good Morning Indiana show.

  • Erin, thanks! Stop by anytime!

  • Hello Fellow Roadie!

    Great subject for a blog here. I’m enjoying the reads. Thanks for such interesting posts and photos. :)

  • I stumbled upon your page while doing some recreational research on H.P. Wasson department stores (why would I be researching that? I am distantly related to the Wasson’s). It brought me to your page on the Michigan Road and I have thoroughly enjoyed looking through the pictures on your site! I loved reading the captions with the snippets of history thrown in… I look forward to reading more!

  • My husband and I saw the site you did on SR 42, which we live on about 2 miles east of 231, and saw a picture of a building you posted in Terre Haute. You stated you didn’t know what it was, but it is The Stables Restaurant with a really great history to it. We just went there this last April and the service and food is really good, a little pricey, but worth it! The website for more info on their history is, stablessteakhouse.com. Great piece on 42!


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