Photo of the Week: Point Pelee National Park

the wooden boardwalk seems to disappear into the golden cattails shining from the setting sun.

Though the official start of fall is a few days away, the color changes of the marsh plants, and the warm glow of the setting sun made it feel like fall as I peered over the marsh boardwalk last night at Point Pelee National Park in Ontario, Canada.

The southernmost part of continental Canada, Point Pelee juts out into Lake Erie, attracting birds and butterflies before they make their flight over Lake Erie during spring and fall migration. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Point Pelee National Park

Photo of the Week: Let’s Fly Away!

Chrome-colored pigeons hang from wires about ten feet above sidewalk as part of an art installation on Woodward Avenue seen during 2017 Detroit Jazz Festival. Skyscrapers and blue sky with white fluffy clouds in the background

As I was walking in the Woodward Esplanade, on my way to the J.P. Morgan Stage at this weekend’s Detroit Jazz Festival, a flash of bright silver caught my eye.

The sun was coming in and out of the fluffy white clouds in the sky.

Perhaps it was a reflection of the sunlight off the metal-trimmed windows of a nearby skyscraper?

I looked up and what I saw made me smile. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Let’s Fly Away!

Photo of the Week: Black Swallowtail Butterfly

black butterfly with blue and yellow accents rests on a clump of fallen Phragmites stalks

After three hours of successful searching for migrating shorebirds along a marsh near Lake Erie, our group of birdwatchers slowly made their way back to our vehicles. Ahead of me, several people stopped to gaze toward the ground. They didn’t take out their binoculars, what could it be? I caught up to discover they had… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Black Swallowtail Butterfly