Photo of the Week: Let’s Fly Away!

Chrome-colored pigeons hang from wires about ten feet above sidewalk as part of an art installation on Woodward Avenue seen during 2017 Detroit Jazz Festival. Skyscrapers and blue sky with white fluffy clouds in the background

As I was walking in the Woodward Esplanade, on my way to the J.P. Morgan Stage at this weekend’s Detroit Jazz Festival, a flash of bright silver caught my eye.

The sun was coming in and out of the fluffy white clouds in the sky.

Perhaps it was a reflection of the sunlight off the metal-trimmed windows of a nearby skyscraper?

I looked up and what I saw made me smile. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Let’s Fly Away!

Photo of the Week: Black Swallowtail Butterfly

black butterfly with blue and yellow accents rests on a clump of fallen Phragmites stalks

After three hours of successful searching for migrating shorebirds along a marsh near Lake Erie, our group of birdwatchers slowly made their way back to our vehicles. Ahead of me, several people stopped to gaze toward the ground. They didn’t take out their binoculars, what could it be? I caught up to discover they had… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Black Swallowtail Butterfly

Solar Eclipse in Southeast Michigan: August 2017

shadows of trees leaves on sidewalk with vague crescents from the solar eclipse

Today’s solar eclipse in the United States, as seen through the shadows of the tree leaves.

While watching TV to see the eclipse totality in Madras, Oregon and Carbondale, Illinois was amazing (it was incredible to see how dark it became), there’s nothing like experiencing the eclipse on your own! Continue reading Solar Eclipse in Southeast Michigan: August 2017