Photo of the Week: Muskegon’s Hackley Public Library

Romanesque granite building with turret, trimmed in red sandstone

If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you know I love libraries.

Whether to find a new book to read, attend local events, or buy books at the library friends’ used book sale, you can’t keep me away from the library.

And when I travel to a new city or town, I always make time to visit their library.

Last week, that meant visiting the beautiful Hackley Public Library in downtown Muskegon, Michigan. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Muskegon’s Hackley Public Library

Photo of the Week: Security Trust Company Building in Downtown Detroit

intricate sculptural columns surround what once was the entrance to the Security Trust Building

Walking south on Griswold to last night’s WordCamp Detroit 2018 afterparty in downtown Detroit, I passed by this window, edged by incredible-looking intricate carvings on two sides.

I had to stop to take a closer look! Continue reading Photo of the Week: Security Trust Company Building in Downtown Detroit

Photo of the Week: Can You Hear Me Now?

unique telephone carvings on the outside walls of the Cincinnati Bell building

Wait, can you go around the block again? I saw something interesting on that building and want to check it out.

That’s what I asked my husband when we were in Cincinnati, driving around downtown at dusk, looking for a place to eat dinner.

We circled the block and slowly came up to the building again. And I confirmed what I saw. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Can You Hear Me Now?