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

Photo of the Week: Lakenenland Sculpture Park

silver metal lion posed on a log as a faced sculpture peers out from a cavity in the log

“Wait. Did you see that entrance sign on the left side of the road? It looks like a bear and a deer cutting a log.

Stop, we have to check this out.”

That’s how we discovered Lakenenland, an outdoor sculpture park east of Marquette in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Lakenenland Sculpture Park

Photo of the Week: Detroit Tigers Win at Comerica Park

Baseball field with fans filling the stands at Comerica Park, gray clouds in a blue sky

It couldn’t have been a better night for a baseball game at Comerica Park in downtown Detroit, Michigan.

The earlier gray clouds that brought light sprinkles in late afternoon had moved east, the sun was shining the sky was turning blue, and the temperatures were in the mid-70’s.

While the Detroit Tigers have had, what should I say, a challenging season, they roared quickly at the beginning of the game with a grand slam home run, and led the Minnesota Twins 5-0. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Detroit Tigers Win at Comerica Park