Crosswinds Marsh is a beautiful nature preserve spanning over 1000 acres of woodland, ponds and wetlands. There’s no way to guess that it used to be farmland.
Peonies at Nichols Arboretum Every spring the Nichols Arboretum Peony garden bursts into bloom. Over the years, I’ve gone to this garden to photograph these incredible flowers. This year, armed with a new, low-key photography method, I’m heading…
Considered Michigan’s answer to Arizona’s famous Horseshoe Bend, the High Rollways above the Manistee River is one of Northern Michigan’s hidden treasures.
On to the Tip of the Thumb After a wet and dreary morning of exploring the outback of Michigan’s Thumb area (see the previous post), we moved north towards the tip of the peninsula for some historic lighthouse…
What’s the Thumb? If you live in Michigan, then you are familiar with the state’s depiction as a “Mitten”. When you ask a Michigander where they’re heading on vacation, often they’ll raise their right hand and point to some…
Mornings, on the way to work, sometimes I stop by the Huron River as it makes its way into Ann Arbor. This morning, I was trying to get some images of a family of swans that had taken…
Barton Dam is probably the most photogenic of all of Ann Arbor’s dams, but it really puts on a show in winter. The frozen cascades look more like the calcifications you’d see in caves and the thick ice…
Ok, ok we know that robins are present in Michigan throughout the winter. Don’t write in about it. But there ARE way fewer of them as our normal summer residents head to Florida and only their Canadian cousins…
There’s almost nothing that can lift your spirits like a sunny morning after a fresh snowfall. We’re once again near the Pittsfield Preserve. Interestingly, some of the land is being preserved as agricultural land (and still farmed by…