

Photographed July 7, 2016


Photographed July 7, 2016

Photographed June 30, 2016


Photographed May 26, 2016

Photographed March 28, 2016

A very damaged flip-flop, found not on the beach but alongside a creek in a wooded park, miles away from Lake Michigan.

And so another season ends.

Photographed September 22, 2015




Photographed August 25, 2015

I came across someone’s art project on the pebble beach:

Which featured this boot:

Photographed August 13, 2015

I’m not 100% sure that this zori was abandoned. It looks like someone may have thrown it or kicked it off as he ran out of the water.

Its mate, however, like its owner, was nowhere to be found.
Since March, I’ve been to the lakefront fifteen times… yet I’ve found only two shoes or parts of shoes.
The weather has been very cool, especially right at the lake. Perhaps it’s been too cold for people to remove their shoes, throw them around, or leave them behind.
The first shoe of the season is part of a sole. It is very degraded and I expect it is left over from last year.
I had to flip it over to be sure what it was. You can see little perforations around the edge that indicate that it is part of a shoe.

I’m not really sure if it is from an outer sole or an inner sole.
I also came across this, which does seem recent:

And here’s what the beach looks like right now, in one of the less littered areas. It really was a beautiful day.

Photographed April 2, 2015



Photographed October 24, 2014