What There is at Kelly, Michigan

About a half-mile southeast of Little Venice is an even smaller "named place," called Kelly. Here in 2005 it's pretty difficult to see why any map would show Kelly as a place at all; the settlement consists of a couple homes and a gaggle of barns and other farm outbuildings. I seem to remember a cute one-room schoolhouse--gothic?--standing at this corner until a few years back, but it collapsed.

The road, here, is labelled Needmore Highway; at the stop sign it crosses a diagonal Clinton Trail (M-50). Needmore ends two miles past 50, only to resume a couple miles later as Kelly Highway, which would make more sense if the road actually connected to Kelly. A few miles more and it changes to Coats Grove Road, which likely attracts X-Files pilgrims.

Shot from my bike, today, on what seems to have become my "normal" ride.