Photo of the Week: Inside|Out Program, Cycles

Bright red, orange, blue and white frog, fish, bear, bird, and turtle in an intertwining mosaic painting with black outlines stand out against an aqua blue and green background.

It’s been a while since I’ve seen one of our nearby communities partnering with the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) on their Inside|Art program of artwork reproductions.

When I saw the artwork displayed at Wilcox Lake Recreation Area in Plymouth, Michigan, I thought the city of Plymouth was one of the Inside|Out partner communities for 2026.

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Wildfire Evacuation from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Operational Land Imager photo from NASA shows plumes of white smoke from large wildfire fires burning around Yellowknife. In the bottom left corner, the darker green area is Great Slave Lake. A deep brown burn scar can be seen in the upper left corner.

Heartbreaking and moving first-person account by climate refugee Michael Nabert of his evacuation from Yellowknife, the capital city of Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada.

Nabert joined thousands of Yellowknife’s residents leaving the city on Highway 3, a two-lane highway, heading south to Alberta.

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