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Photo of the Week: Plymouth Ice Festival 40th Anniversary

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A unicorn ice sculpture stand on its hind legs in downtown Kellogg Park, main street businesses in the background.

Happy anniversary, Plymouth Ice Festival!

Returning to Kellogg Park and downtown Plymouth, Michigan, the annual ice festival returned this weekend with dozens of ice sculptures to check out as you stroll the sidewalks and streets.

While this year’s event won’t have live ice carvings (due to COVID restrictions), there are a lot of beautiful sculptures of animals, butterflies, vehicles, dogs, etc. that were carved off site and delivered throughout the downtown area.

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Photo of the Week: Red-Shouldered Shield Bug

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A wooden frame of a lime green insect with red-shoulders against a black background. In the background are blurred cattails.

You wouldn’t think you’d see many insects in winter around Detroit.

Given the cold, below freezing, temperatures, most insects have hunkered down for the winter months.

But you can’t miss the lime green insect with long multi-colored antennae and red shoulders on the edge of the Belle Isle Nature Center parking lot.

Part of the Overlooked outdoor macro photography installation at Belle Isle State Park in Detroit, the photograph is one of many massive insect photographs by photographer Joseph Ferraro.

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Photo of the Week: Brilliant Winter Sunset in Michigan

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Bright gold and deep salmon colors streak across the sky at dusk, lighting up the gray clouds in the sky. Snow-covered harvested cornfields in the foreground.

Late afternoon and early evening in winter often finds me on dirt backroads in southeast Michigan, peering over snow-covered fields for the moth-like flapping of the Short-eared Owl. And I’m not always successful finding the owl. A few seconds before I took this photo a flock of about 40 American Tree Sparrows flew off toward… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Brilliant Winter Sunset in Michigan

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