If you didn’t know this photo was taken in the past week, in the cold of a southeast Michigan winter with temperatures barely in the double digits Fahrenheit, you might think today’s photo of the week was taken on a warm day.
But it you look carefully in the rocks along the shoreline, you’ll notice white patches of snow and ice.
Continue reading Photo of the Week: Cloud Reflections in Lake Erie
Walking out to the western shore of Lake Erie, I peered over the rocky and sandy shoreline in search of shorebirds which began migrating through southeast Michigan over the past few weeks.
I thought I heard a sound above me and I was right!
When I looked up, I saw a flock of around 40 American White Pelicans soaring overhead, slowly flapping their broad wings.
Continue reading Photo of the Week: American White Pelicans in Flight
Only three of us were at Erie Marsh Preserve along southwestern Lake Erie near the Michigan/Ohio border this weekend as the sun slowly set over the wetland. It was a calm, relatively cool night for early August as the day’s winds had finally slowed down. As I walked the trail back to my vehicle, I… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Summer Evening at Erie Marsh