I was delighted on my early morning hike at Lake Erie Metropark when I saw a pair of Marsh wrens chasing each other in the eight-foot tall Big bluestem prairie grass.
Once a lawn of green grass extending almost 1/2 mile to the Wave Pool, the area south of Cherry Island Nature Trail was converted to native prairie grasses a few years ago.
Continue reading Photo of the Week: Big Bluestem
To put it mildly, it’s been quite a week in my hometown.
And for many folks throughout Michigan.
In a period of two days, our southeast Michigan community encountered:
Our summer in southeast Michigan, like summer for many others in the Northern Hemisphere, has been a mix of high temperatures, intense rainstorms, high humidity, and wildfire smoke drifting from Canada.
Overcast, gray skies seemed to be the norm for weeks.
It was rare to get more than two days of sunshine before another storm moved through.
Continue reading Photo of the Week: Blue Skies