Sashaying through Michigan

I'm reluctant to step on any toes, but: northern Michigan is waaay more scenic than central Michigan.
Bay City, though, is quite an attractive city -- at least, the part we saw is attractive.
Center Street reminds me of Swiss Avenue in Dallas: old, gracious homes with gargoyles and concrete lions and tidy lawns. Yes, we actually wandered around town admiring the architecture.
Perhaps it's no longer so, but Bay City in the past attracted some real money.
-- Delhi, Ontario is the center of Canada's tobacco-growing industry. (if we saw any tobacco in the fields, we didn't know what we were seeing.)
-- Across southern Ontario the trees are finally, mostly leafed out. The oats and wheat are getting close to knee high, strawberries are coming along nicely and the corn has shouldered its way through the top soil. This is a region of rolling hills and beautiful fields.
-- A first for me, we slowed our pace to ease around a young couple in a horse-drawn buggy.
-- Aimee Simple McPherson, the famous 20th century evangelist, was born just down the road from our lodgings in Simcoe, ON.
-- We are three now.  Clark Langley started home yesterday.
-- Tomorrow, Ottawa.