Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

Deborah Edwards-Oñoro enjoys birding, gardening, taking photos, reading, and watching tennis. She's retired from a 25+ year career in web design, usability, and accessibility.

Photo of the Week: Michigan Central Ticket Lobby Clock

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A white marble-faced clock with mahogany trim sits on a mahogany ledge about 30 feet above the floor on a rosy-yellow limestone archway.

Visiting Michigan Central Station in Detroit’s Corktown area was one of my favorite family moments over the 2024 end-of-year holiday break.

With holiday decorations throughout the station, it was hard for me to stop oohing and aahing as I walked through the station with my son.

I had to point out the ticket lobby clock to him the moment we stepped inside Michigan Central. I heard a bit of a sigh from him as I gave a brief summary of how the clock came to be restored. (I’m sure my son is tired of the history stories I’ve shared with him over the years.)

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Remembering Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024

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Jimmy Carter wearing dark sunglasses, a brown cap, and brown collared shirt with Jimmy Carter Work Project emblems sits behind a podium during the Jimmy Carter Work Project 2025 press conference in Detroit, Michigan in June 2005.

Like many others, I was saddened to read the news of former President Jimmy Carter’s death.

In June 2005, I photographed and published stories for Habitat for Humanity Detroit on their website about the 2005 Jimmy Carter Work Project (now called Carter Work Project) in Detroit.

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Photo of the Week: Ash-throated Flycatcher

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A brownish-gray bird with copper-edged wings perches on a woody shrub branch. the bird has a black bill, black eye, whitish breast and long tail.

An unexpected rare bird in the Battle Creek, Michigan area, the Ash-throated Flycatcher, excited the Michigan birding community over the 2024 end-of-year holiday break.

With warmer winter temperatures in the 30’s and 40’s Fahrenheit, and sometimes reaching as high as 50 degrees Fahrenheit, birders throughout Michigan and nearby states trekked to the western Michigan area to view the bird typically found in western and southwest United States.

I was one of the birders making the journey!

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