Photo of the Week: Detroit NFL Draft 2024 Countdown Clock

Silver half-circle arch with Detroit spelled out on the arch has a blue half circle area underneath counting down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until the NFL Draft. Above the arch you can see several skyscrapers as well as the incomplete Hudson's site skyscraper against the blue sky.

While I’m not a big football fan (I would much rather watch tennis), I am fan of good things that come to or happen in Detroit. The countdown clock for the 2024 National Football League (NFL) Draft in downtown Detroit at Campus Martius has been keeping everyone updated for almost two years on how many… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Detroit NFL Draft 2024 Countdown Clock

Total Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024

The large black moon covers the sun, with bright white light shining on the edges of the moon against a black sky.

My original plan for watching this week’s total solar eclipse was to watch the partial eclipse at one of our local southeast Michigan metroparks.

While not in the path of totality, the park location offered over 99% obscuration of the sun during the eclipse.

Given totality was less than an hour drive, my husband and I decided this once-in-a-lifetime event for our area was something we wanted to see all of.

So we decided we would cross the state line into northwest Ohio, to an area of totality to watch.

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