Photo of the Week: Fairy Doors Scavenger Hunt Returns to Belle Isle

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources logo on a mossy plaque on the ground, surrounded by miniature shovel, truck, green evergreen trees next to a blue bird house.

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.

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Photo of the Week: Kensington Metropark in Fall Colors

Brilliant orange, yellow and red colors of the leaves line the shore of the blue lake, the refelection of the leaves and blue sky with white clouds in the water.

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.

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Photo of the Week: Happy Halloween!

A brick house with giant gray spider on the roof. Front lawn covered with grave markers, skeletons, Halloween figures, and creepy hands that look like they're growing on the green grass lawn.

One of the nearby neighbors goes all out for Halloween decorations.

And has for over 10 years.

Each year it seems their Halloween display has grown even larger with more graveyard markers and skeletons.

The Bride of Frankenstein showed up about five years ago. That gray gigantic spider on the roof appeared three years ago.

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