When I was growing up, I can’t recall ever seeing a wild turkey.
As I learned recently, there’s a good reason for that: Michigan was still working on re-establishing the native bird in Michigan.
In Michigan, the Wild Turkey was thought to have disappeared by 1900 due to loss of habitat and overhunting.
Continue reading Photo of the Week: Wild Turkeys in Southeast Michigan
When it’s a gray and cloudy day in November, what can you do outside?
Head to Belle Isle State Park, of course, for a scavenger hunt to find the fairies!
Which is what I did this weekend, when the Fairy Doors returned to the Belle Isle Aquarium and Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory for the second year.
Continue reading Photo of the Week: Fairy Doors Scavenger Hunt Returns to Belle Isle
One of the reasons I love living in Michigan is because we have four seasons. And fall is one of the most beautiful times of the year when our trees change color.
With warmer temperatures this fall, floods in the summer, and drought last spring, our gorgeous fall color was delayed this year in southeast Michigan.
Typically we see fall foilage change color in early and mid October.
But not this year.
Continue reading Photo of the Week: Kensington Metropark in Fall Colors