exploring nature’s infinite connections
My wife and I usually exchange ongoing critter sightings around our little suburban "preserve." Earlier this month, she called me out to see a rather unique one. Some kind of very large wasp was just hanging out on the trunk of one of our trees. "Very large" meaning...
One year ago, I wrote about a bit of a rabbit hole I stepped into regarding the name of a local city-owned nature preserve and confusion over some naming on the maps of a couple of streams that run through or around the Plum Brook Nature Preserve (aka. Sterling...
The evening of October 10, 2024 ( a KP index of 9!) brought another spectacular solar storm our way, triggering displays of the Aurora Borealis across Michigan and elsewhere. The Aurora Borealis appears more frequently at lower latitudes because we are likely...
Autumn colors are coming to a peak (edit: now past) here in Southeast Michigan, about right on time this year. They dissipated a bit faster than I would have liked. I took an opportunity to visit a nearby 90-acre nature preserve. Places like this are far and few...
Walking along this beach, it isn't uncommon to look down and find a piece of fossilized coral. During the Devonian Age (359-416 million years ago), this land mass we now call Michigan was near the Equator and teaming with marine life. It's a long time frame that seems...
The Great Lakes are a bit below normal as far as ice cover for this time in January at only 2.9%. But similar to past years, a lot can change in just a matter of a couple weeks. The little tilted heart-shaped lake down by Detroit is Lake St. Clair, where I do a lot of...
While working on a few photographs today of Lake Huron, I began to think about how different the landscape (lakescape?) and geology are between the lake's northern and southern ends. I suppose that is to be expected for a lake that is more than 200 statute miles long....
Abundant pollinators and blooms were found in a recent visit to Oudolf Garden in Detroit. Since my post last year, we've visited a few times and the garden is really starting to fill in to fulfill its ambition to show something different with every visit throughout...
We are fortunate to have a number of designated wilderness areas in Michigan, which can be easy to forget when you live close to one of the sprawling metropolitan areas that seem to keep expanding. It is a constant source of sadness for me to see local woodlands...