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If the temperature is in the mid-30’s Farenheit and the sun is shining, what else would you do on a weekend morning but jump into the frigid waters of the Detroit River?
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Great Lakes freighters pass by Belle Isle State Park, an island in the Detroit River north of downtown Detroit, regularly as they deliver raw materials to ports on the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway.
But it’s not often you see a Great Lakes freighter celebrating the holiday season with a Christmas tree onboard, as I did last Friday when the Dorothy Ann-Pathfinder tug-barge headed downbound on the Detroit River.
I didn’t notice the Christmas tree on the barge until it almost passed me!
Have to say in all my years watching freighters on the Detroit River, I’ve never seen one with a Christmas tree on it.
After doing some research online, I learned the Dorothy Ann-Pathfinder has been in service since 1999. In addition it:
I’ll be watching for the Dorothy Ann-Pathfinder at the end of 2019 to see if it once again has a Christmas tree onboard.
While everyone else I knew was fast asleep on an early Sunday morning, I was up at 5:45am to head out the door for a morning of birdwatching at Belle Isle State Park in Detroit, Michigan.
I joined 13 other birders (people who watch birds) in peering through my binoculars at the 50 to 75 foot tall tree branches early on a damp gray Sunday morning to look for spring migrants and other birds.
One of my favorite birds to see in spring: the black and orange Baltimore Oriole whose bright colors always stand out against the bright green leaves.
This oriole perched long enough for me to capture a photo of him on a bird feeder at the Belle Isle Nature Zoo before he flew off into the woods.