Photo of the Week: Tree Peonies in Bloom

deep magenta peony blooms against green leaves

With the warm weather over the past couple weeks in southeast Michigan, our gardens are filled with color from mid-to-late spring flowers, including gorgeous deep purple lilacs, brilliant orange poppies, and the soft pink of crabapple flowers.

One of my favorite spring flowers in bloom is the peony, and there’s no better place to view the wide variety of peonies than at the Peony Garden at the Nichols Arboretum in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

People throughout Michigan and beyond travel to the almost 100-year-old Peony Garden to stroll through the 27 beds of the 200+ varieties of herbaceous peonies.

Tree Peonies

And while many people plan a trip to the garden to see herbaceous peonies in late spring, I love taking a tour a few weeks earlier, when the tree peonies are in bloom.  Continue reading Photo of the Week: Tree Peonies in Bloom

Podcasts and Transcripts: An Interview with Alaina Wiens

Strategy Car Podcast

Longtime readers of this blog know that I’m an advocate for adding transcripts to podcasts and captions to videos.

Not only do they make your podcasts and videos accessible to a wider audience, transcripts and captions make search engines happy: they can now index your content. Continue reading Podcasts and Transcripts: An Interview with Alaina Wiens

Memorial Day 2018: Remembering Those Who Died While Serving Our Country

white grave markers of soldiers on a grassy field along the River Raisin

Today on Memorial Day, we remember and honor all men and women who died in military service for the United States of America.

We are grateful for their service and sacrifice.

Dating back to the 1860’s, Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, honored soldiers who had died in the Civil War. Continue reading Memorial Day 2018: Remembering Those Who Died While Serving Our Country