2017-05-14 - Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes

Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes is a National Lakeshore near the town of Empire Michigan. If you look at your left hand, it would be on the pinkie finger just as the left side starts to curve to the top. The name comes from an Ojibewe legend. Some of these photos were taken at the Sleeping Bear Coast Guard Station Maritime Museum and others were taken out on the dunes themselves. Off the coast you can see South and North Manitou Islands. In Algonquin theology, Manitou is the life force of the universe.

Since moving to Michigan, my wife and I have taken great pleasure in exploring the natural beauty of the state and learning more about the history of the place. I believe that language structures thought - the words we use in our native language condition the process by which we understand the world around us. I enjoy learning languages to try to dissect cultural values embedded within. I have spent a large part of my life in lands once populated with people who spoke Algonquin languages and I want to study those languages in order to know this place better.

To borrow the words of the Mexican architect Luis Barragán, “Don’t ask me about this building or that one. See what I saw.”

Camera:  Nikon  D200
Medium: Digital