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Photo of the Week: Detroit Institute of Arts Inside|Out Program in Canton

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A wood framed painting on a pole in a shadowed park area. The painting depicts a women in long white dress, green bodice with blue shawl leaning against the trunk of an oak tree, as if she's whispering secrets to the tree. Her straw, wide-brimmed bonnet flung on the grass behind her.

Hard to believe it’s been over 12 years since the launch of Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) Inside|Out program in 2010.

Part of the DIA’s 125th-anniversary celebration, the Inside|Out program has become an annual community art outreach program in Michigan.

Reproductions of high-quality paintings from the DIA are installed outside in communities throughout Michigan from spring to fall for community members to enjoy.

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Photo of the Week: Plymouth Art in the Park 2022

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Three women bend down on the sidewalk as they use chalk to draw a montage of Star Wars characters, including Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Chewybacca.

Back for the 42nd year, Plymouth Art in the Park kicked off this weekend in downtown Plymouth, Michigan.

And as has been tradition for years, this year’s sidewalk chalk drawing captured fairgoers’ attention as they walk by Kellogg Park .

It wasn’t completely finished when I walked by, but I managed to catch a few photos of the Star Wars-themed drawing.

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Photo of the Week: Tasty Tidbit for a Tern

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Gray tern with black cap and black-tipped orange bill, extends its wings at it quickly flies off after diving into the water to catch a small fish in its bill.

In the midday heat of the summer, I don’t typically see many birds active in marshes.

A few Great Egrets and Great Blue Herons can be found along the shorelines.

Or perhaps a Wood Duck with their duckling family or Trumpeter Swans with their cygnets.

It can be pretty quiet in the marshes, except for the calls of the Red-Winged Blackbird.

But I’ll often see terns as they fly and circle over canals and marshes.

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