Photo of the Week: One World…Under Michigan Stars

Round copper-colored sculpture with insets of blue glass and multiple cutouts sits on a concrete slab, surrounded by grass, silhouetted by bare trees.

You can’t miss the large steel sculpture as you complete the curve on Lakeshore Drive from the U.S. Coast Guard Station on the Detroit River at Belle Isle State Park in Detroit, Michigan.

The copper-colored sculpture with blue glass stands out on a raised slope on the east side of the park, where the lighthouse trail starts.

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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: Cooper’s Hawk at Belle Isle State Park

medium-sized brown-barred white-breasted hawk perches on bare branch.

One of the first things you learn as a birder is to look up to see the birds.

And in winter, it’s a lot easier to look for birds in the trees and shrubs: there are no leaves to hide the birds.

When I noticed the sounds of animals along the trail at Detroit’s Belle Isle State Park had suddenly gone quiet, I knew there had to be a reason. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Cooper’s Hawk at Belle Isle State Park