Photo of the Week: Telephone of the Wind

A green wall rotary phone installed on a weathered brown horizontal board between two thick tree trunks. On the board is a dedication inscription. Blue sky and green leaved tree branches fill the background.

Overlooking Nankin Lake in Westland, Michigan, on a hill west of the trail entrance, I found something unusual for Wayne County Parks.

Installed sometime in 2023 during the Covid pandemic, a wind phone dedicated to a young Dearborn Heights, Michigan man nestles between the sturdy trunks of two hardwood trees.

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Updating the Blogroll

Woman typing on laptop computer on desk, a journal is closed next to the laptop.

Starting today you’ll notice an updated blogroll on this website.

For readers not familiar with the term, a blogroll is a collection of links to other sites and blogs a writer or blogger finds interesting, reads regularly, and wants to share with their readers.

A blogroll might display on its own page or in a specific location on every page of a website. My blogroll displays in a column on desktop/laptop and above the site footer on mobile.

Blogrolls were a standard feature on blogs years ago. As social media usage rose, many people stopped publishing on their own websites.

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