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Photo of the Week: Enjoying Michigan’s Fall Berries

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pints of red raspberries, yellow raspberries, and blackberries in green containers.
Freshly picked berries

With cooler weather and rain expected every day for the coming week, the end of berry season is quickly coming to an end in our southeast Michigan area.

Which meant if I wanted to have more Michigan-grown berries to eat fresh, makes jams, or freeze, I needed to go out this weekend to do some picking.

I found a new local u-pick farm that not only had fall red raspberries, but also yellow raspberries as well as fall bearing blackberries. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Enjoying Michigan’s Fall Berries

Photo of the Week: Detroit Memorial Drive at Belle Isle

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Hundreds of photo posters line Belle Isle State Park in a memorial drive.

Vehicles moved slowly along the roads of Belle Isle State Park in Detroit this past week, as people paid their respects to Detroiters.

Detroit Memorial Drive, organized by Rochelle Riley, City of Detroit Arts and Culture Director, was created to honor Detroit victims of COVID-19.

Over 900 photos of Detroiters provided by family members were made into posters, which were staked on one side of the perimeter road and then both sides of the interior roads.

The 900+ photos represent more than 1,500 Detroiters who died from COVID-19.

It was a somber, heartbreaking drive to see photos of people I know, ministers I’ve heard preach, couples smiling at each other, community leaders, and police officers.

Photo of the Week: Common Gallinule

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gray and brown marsh bird wades along the edge of the Lake Erie marsh looking for food.

Check out those green legs of the Common Gallinule!

It’s been over 20 years since I saw my first Common Gallinule, but I’ve only seen their long green legs in the past two years.

The unexpected leg color always makes me smile.

I remember the first time I saw a Common Gallinule, in the mid 1990’s, in a marsh near the Houston, Texas airport.

The bright red bill and brilliant yellow forehead shield made it easy for me to quickly identify the marsh bird as it swam in the shallow water and disappeared into the reeds.

Fast forward 10 years and I’m seeing the Common Gallinule every spring as it migrates north to one of its breeding areas in Ohio and Michigan, where I see it in Lake Erie marshes.

It’s not often I see one in summer.

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