Photo of the Week: Maker Faire Detroit 2016

remote controlled smoke-breathing dragon travels down main walkway

Where can you find a family-friendly event, with hundreds of people enjoying the arts, science, technology, and music?

With people celebrating inventions and creations that make you smile, laugh, and leave you wondering: what did they make that out of? Continue reading Photo of the Week: Maker Faire Detroit 2016

Photo of the Week: Incredible Science Machine Team Topples ~250,000 Dominoes

Dominoes set up on floor of Westland Mall

The thirty-something woman and her young son rushed in front of me as I reached for the door to the Westland Shopping Mall entrance.

Do you know where the dominos are set up? she hurriedly asked as she looked back at me.

No, I replied. But I’ll see you there in a few minutes! Continue reading Photo of the Week: Incredible Science Machine Team Topples ~250,000 Dominoes

Photo of the Week: Canton Farmers Market

Canton Farmers Market, with sign highlighting farming in Canton

When I first moved to Canton, Michigan years ago, local farmers would pull up their pickup trucks to the old K-Mart parking lot at Ford and Sheldon to sell their vegetables and fruits.

I would hurry home from work on Wednesday evenings to get some of Canton’s delicious sweet corn (for years, Canton was known at the “Sweet Corn Capital of Michigan”) and mouth-watering melons. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Canton Farmers Market