Photo of the Week: Zaagiing Mural

Brightly colored yellow, blue, green, and orange circle mural stands out with the colorful imagery of animals, birds, and plants found in the refuge.

As I discovered this past week, the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge has new a mural painted by Anishinaabe artist Hadassah GreenSky in the lobby of the John D. Dingell Jr. Visitor Center in Trenton, Michigan.

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Photo of the Week: Feeder Bird Symphony Mural

A two part mural: on the left side is a background of yellow, orange, and green-leaved trees against a blue sky with colorful birds perched on branches, birdhouses, and foraging on the ground. The mural transitions to a stark winter gray-sky landscape with different birds in flight while others are foraging on the ground.

Despite snow and sub-zero Fahrenheit temperatures this weekend, I started my Saturday with our local Wild Ones chapter winter sowing native plant seeds with several dozen gardeners at the University of Michigan-Dearbon Environmental Interpretive Center (EIC).

While I was at the EIC, I knew I wanted to stop at the Observation Room and check out the new Feeder Bird Symphony mural I learned about from the January 2026 newsletter.

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