Photo of the Week: Flooding and a Tornado Come to My Hometown

Storm waters completely cover the paved road and sidewalk, reaching up to yards and driveways. In the background, you can see a blue four-door sedan with water up to its floorboards. In the foreground, are several trees with trunks two feet underwater. A small pollinator garden with yellow and blue blooming plants is also in the foreground.

To put it mildly, it’s been quite a week in my hometown.

And for many folks throughout Michigan.

In a period of two days, our southeast Michigan community encountered:

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Photo of the Week: Little Blue Heron

A small white heron with green lores, green legs, and black-tipped bicolored bill stands upright after slowly making its way along the marsh shoreline. Green vegetation in the background, clear water in the foreground shows the reflection of the white bird.

A smaller heron, the immature Little Blue Heron I saw this weekend at a southwestern Lake Erie marsh was slowly foraging the wetlands in the furthest corner from where I parked.

I’ve put off hiking the trail around the marsh this summer, there’s no shade or wooded area around the wetland.

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Photo of the Week: Blue Skies

Fluffy white clouds float slowly in the cerulean blue sky, in the foreground on the left is a large green-leaved tree.

Our summer in southeast Michigan, like summer for many others in the Northern Hemisphere, has been a mix of high temperatures, intense rainstorms, high humidity, and wildfire smoke drifting from Canada.

Overcast, gray skies seemed to be the norm for weeks.

It was rare to get more than two days of sunshine before another storm moved through.

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