exploring nature’s infinite connections
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...
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...
This week I took advantage of a guided hike by Bill Atkinson of the Michigan Nature Association in a new preserve for me. The MNA is one of Michigan's oldest land preservation organizations following a basic philosophy that in order to preserve land, you need to own...
Solitude, a bit of a cold nip in the air, and a place where I thought a troll might be hiding in an animal's den. Despite my visit here being some time ago, I remember the feelings in coming upon this scene. It looked like some mystical place out of Lord of the Rings...
Squish, squish, squish. That sound your hiking shoes make while following a very wet, primitive trail, through what you will learn to be as a rare Lakeplain wet-mesic prairie. Unfortunately, not much "prairie" remains due to invasives and our land use...
Today was one of those days where I didn't think I was going to come up with any shots worth keeping as it had a stressful start. Despite getting up early enough - add in equipment misplacement issues and navigational issues in getting here to throw off your...