Photo of the Week: Christmas Day Hike at Kensington Metro Park

looking up into the oak trees with rust-colored leaves

Our family has a tradition of hiking the trails at Kensington Metro Park, near Milford, Michigan, on New Year’s Day. We spend our time birdwatching, looking for tracks in the snow, and taking in the beauty of the winter woods. This year, since we couldn’t all be together on New Year’s Day 2017, we moved… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Christmas Day Hike at Kensington Metro Park

Photo of the Week: Holiday Windows at Macy’s

young girl holding her brother's hand placing a Santa letter in the mail box

When I was a young child, one of our family traditions was to visit the downtown Detroit J.L. Hudson’s department store to see their holiday windows on Woodward Avenue.

The windows were decorated with Christmas themes, toys, gifts, and figures dressed up for the holidays.

We would ooh and aah over the displays and secretly hope we would find some of the toys under the tree Christmas morning. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Holiday Windows at Macy’s

Pluto Gets Into the Holiday Spirit, Thanks to NASA

Pluto in festive red and green colors

If you’d like more red and green holiday spirit this season, check out the amazing image of Pluto taken by NASA. According to NASA’s post this week, the New Horizons composition team created the image from a scan of Pluto taken on July 14, 2015. And no, the colors aren’t how Pluto usually looks. The… Continue reading Pluto Gets Into the Holiday Spirit, Thanks to NASA