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Plum Brook Preserve

Plum Brook Preserve

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...

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Oudolf Garden Detroit

Oudolf Garden Detroit

Last summer, the area planned for a new "designer garden" on Detroit's Belle Isle didn't look like much. High water levels in the Great Lakes contributed to some significant inland flooding on this island in the Detroit River. This flooding threat actually led to a...

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Exploring Michigan Solar Energy

Exploring Michigan Solar Energy

Pandemic stay-at-home boredom is impacting me a bit. It has also been hard to keep focus. I have about 5 posts sitting in draft right now that I keep coming back to, making changes, adding, and then hitting writer's block. My photography output is pretty low, even in...

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Twenty Nineteen

Twenty Nineteen

True story, I started this post with some placeholder text of "blah blah blah" so I could go back and look at some of my recent yearly favorites posts to avoid being a repetitive idiot. After reviewing 2016-2018, I have some news for you - I think I can already check...

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Twenty Eighteen Wanderings

Twenty Eighteen Wanderings

As this year comes to a close, I found myself once again engaged in a self-imposed tradition of sorts.  I am looking back through my photo archives picking out favorites or memorable moments from the year, my 11th year in doing so.   It is a year I found...

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