This limestone quarry in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan used to be one of my favorite swimming spots as a kid, but it’s been closed down and mostly abandoned for the last few years.
Michigan
Cultivate Coffee & TapHouse Poetry Reading
Poetry reading and book signing for “Grains of Sand”!
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be reading from “Grains of Sand” at Cultivate Coffee & TapHouse in Ypsilanti, MI on Saturday, May 6th. You can find the event invites on Facebook:
Grains of Sand Facebook page
Cultivate Coffee & TapHouse Facebook pageCultivate Coffee & TapHouse Facebook page
Barnes & Noble Book Signing
My very first signing at a Barnes & Noble! I’m looking forward to meeting new people and chatting about the writing process and about ‘Grains of Sand’
Check out the Facebook event, and come see me Saturday, April 8th from 12-4pm in Lansing, Michigan!
Under a brilliant sun
Kissed by the sun
You danced across the landscape
And I watched in amazement
This is an excerpt of a poem from Grains of Sand. To read the full poem, you can download the book via Kindle or purchase the paperback from Amazon.
Grains of Sand
COPYRIGHT © 2016 by Colton Babladelis
Excerpt appears courtesy of Winter Goose Publishing
Dried flowers in Autumn
Crocodile in the Detroit Zoo
Loved this fun painting at the entrance to the Outback walkabout installation!
Itty-bitty teeny-tiny toad
Sunset through a tree
Cultivating Community Garden
Calsbar Quarry, Gulliver, Michigan
A colorful glimpse into a unique quarry in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This former limestone quarry was filled almost instantly when miners hit a natural spring. The white limestone gives the water an almost tropical color, while remaining crystal clear to see the sunken buildings, equipment, logs, and wildlife at the bottom (about 20 feet deep when this photo was taken). It used to be one of my favorite swimming places, but was drained in recent years to resume limestone mining.