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Photo of the Week: First Ornament on Our 2025 Christmas Tree

January 4, 2026 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

Gray felt handsewn mouse sits in red and white print covered walnut shell hanging from a branch of a live fir Christmas tree. Other ornaments and bright red and yellow lights in the background.

Handmade by a close friend over 30 years ago, the small mouse ornament is one of my favorite Christmas ornaments.

It always brings back memories of that long-ago friendship. As often happens, we’ve lost touch over the years.

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Photo of the Week: Detroit’s Renaissance Center

December 28, 2025 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

Tall gray and silver building towers rise from a distance, in the foreground a paved path curves around a wetland area bordered by brown, dead stems of native plants.

I remember when the Renaissance Center (RenCen) was built in downtown Detroit in the 1970’s. The “city-within-a-city” urban renewal project along the Detroit River was the talk of our area when it opened in 1977.

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Photo of the Week: Letters to Santa

December 21, 2025 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

A brown mailbox decorated with a white label written in black script to Santa Claus at Santa Workshop in the North Pole. The mailbox is decorated with white and red poinsettiias, green holly leaves, as well as a green Christmas Tree postage stamp with a date of Dec 25th. The mailbox is open and the red, white, and green striped lid is filled with festive red and white foiled chocolate candy kisses that look like fuzzy red Santa hats with white fur on the edge.

For those readers who celebrate the Christmas holiday, have you sent your letter to Santa?

Photo of the Week: First Ornament on Our 2025 Christmas Tree

Photo of the Week: Detroit’s Renaissance Center

Photo of the Week: Letters to Santa

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