Photo of the Week: Mississagi Freighter on the Detroit River

Mississagi freighter travels along the Detroit River

While I do a fair amount of bird watching at Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan, one of other hobbies I enjoy while I’m on the island is watching the freighters on the Detroit River.

It’s fun to see the Algowood in the fog or Dorothy Ann-Pathfinder traveling the waters on their way upbound to the Soo Locks or downbound to Windsor or cities further south.

This weekend I saw the Mississagi freighter on one of its last trips for the season, downbound on the Detroit River shipping channel to Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Mississagi Freighter on the Detroit River

Photo of the Week: Holiday Hike at Kensington Metropark

sunset over the trees, see from the Nature Center trail overlooking Kent Lake.

One of our family holiday traditions is hiking the trails at Kensington Metropark Nature Center, near Milford in southeast Michigan. In the past, when our son was younger and in grade school, we would hike on New Year’s Day. Not a day when many people are out at the metroparks; we often had the trails… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Holiday Hike at Kensington Metropark

My Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2019

top 10 popular posts for 2019

With the end of the year, and the decade, fast approaching, I took at look back at the 200+ blog posts published in 2019 to identify my most popular posts.

Typically, the posts read most often are about WordPress, accessibility, and user experience, the main topics I write about.

But there’s always a few posts that my readers like that don’t fit into my main categories

And this year there are a few. Continue reading My Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2019