I made a return visit to "The one that got away" in Downtown Honor, MI. In the summer we looked at a 1 acre plot out here, but the long and short of it, is that the community has an HOA. and While there are no HOA dues, there are HOA rules, and there are no HOA benefits. They had exacting requirements for what could be built on the land, and doing the math for everything, it wasn't feasible. But what was very noteworthy is that this plot was in a small, dead-end neaighborhood on a hilltop with a commanding view of the countryside.
At my heart, I am a man that loves to be near the water. Either I was a frog, or a waterbug in a previous life. I'll never know, but when people say they come up north in the fall to see the trees, THIS is what they mean.
Alt Text for all four images: These images come from a hillside of a small town in northern michigan, Honor, MI. A clear blue sky fading into white in the horizon dominates the upper half of each of these pictures. Coming up from the bottom of each image meeting in that blue-white horizon is a sea of trees. Its mid-fall in northern Michigan, so this ocean of trees, is awash in colors. Bright yellows fading into dark orange, fading into flaming, vibrant reds, mixed with the green of trees who aren't quite ready to hibernate for the winter, or are evengreen pine trees. Some of the photos feature some house and structures while others feature the "honor highway", one of the main paths from shores of lake Michigan into traverse city. Dotted along the roads are house and buildings of downtown Honor, MI.
