deerlighthoue, photo by Zen Me.
I kind of ignored Mother’s Day here on Michigan in Pictures.
I think that’s OK because I didn’t ignore it offline … and maybe because I found you all this great collection of photos taken on Presque Isle on Mother’s Day.
Thanks, moms, for all you do.
Editor’s Note: The photo that originally appeared here was deleted by the photographer so I am using one of my own!
Trillium lit by Spring Beauties, photo by farlane
The Wikipedia page on trillium lists the 40-50 species of genus trillium. This photo is Trillium grandiflorum, also known as white trillium, grand trillium and snow trillium. The flower is protected in Michigan and is most often on steep slopes where it is protected from grazing white-tailed deer who dislike grazing on inclines.
The USDA’s Trillium grandiflorum (white trillium) page has excellent information regarding classification and lots of photos and links.
some cute chicks, photo by paulhitz.
As is usually the case, I came upon today’s picture in a roundabout way. Stylurus (who seems to know a thing or two about birds) noted that Paul could submit this to the Michigan Breeding Bird Atlas II. The Michigan DNR’s page on MBB II explains:
In the 1980s, volunteers surveyed the entire state in a massive effort to record and map in an atlas the birds which breed in Michigan. This information has proved invaluable to scientists and natural resource managers, but there are indications that bird distribution and abundance has changed since this atlas was created.
Starting in 2002, the Kalamazoo Nature Center was contracted to coordinate the creation of a second Michigan Breeding Bird Atlas. The data collection portion of this process is scheduled to be completed in 2008, and its success depends again on the dedication of a corps of volunteers: backyard birdfeeders, hunters, amateur birdwatchers, and professionals.
You can get all the details on this project at the links above and go to the main MichiganBirds.org page for a flock of links to Michigan birding sites.
mr. timmers cows, photo by Latitude 45.
Martin’s photo reminded me of two very unrelated things. The first is an excellent program I heard on the radio last night on Interlochen Public Radio’s Points North featuring Ricardo Salvador of the WK Kellogg Foundation talking about “good food”. The Michigan-based WK Kellogg Foundation has an initiative that hopes to change things so that 10% of the nation’s food supply is healthy to eat, improves environmental quality, is fair to the producers and is affordable to purchase.
The 2nd half of the program introduced a new farm land trust program called A Spirit of Place that is getting going on the Leelanau Peninsula. The program would try to keep farm prices low and keep lands in farming.
Since it’s Saturday, I can probably pass the second link along as a Saturday morning cartoon. Cows with Guns is one of the funniest things I’ve seen on these internets. I hope you enjoy it (rated PG for brief, mild language and cartoon violence).
Much of Michigan (including these two horses) is socked in by a winter storm.
More photos by Jim Sorbie on Michigan in Pictures.
We will positively, for sure, I promise be starting our profile of Bobby Alcott tomorrow!
ice forms, photo by taterfalls.
Taterfalls (Tate King) says that this photo is of bushes that have been sprayed by crashing Lake Michigan waves at Pt. Betsie.
And speaking of Muskegon bald eagles, which we were very recently, he has a great shot there too!
On the Wing, photo by Apocaplops.
Apocaplops writes A lone Bald Eagle flies over Huron National Forest, in northern Michigan. He adds that it is better viewed large and also has two more photos of this very big bird (click below). He also (also) has, by admission, too darn many cameras.
Kim took this photo on Friday in the Stonington area of Michigan’s Delta County (near Escanaba in the UP). Kim has taken a ton of great pictures of rural abandonment as well!
photo Jennifer Kohler
Michigan’s Center for the Photographic Arts holds their annual Fall Focus Festival/Fine Art Show the third weekend of September every year (this weekend – September 16 & 17, 2006 from 11-6 PM).
2006 event will feature art from approximately 600 students located in Burns Park Elementary School – Ann Arbor, Dicken Elementary School – Ann Arbor, Eberwhite Elementary School – Ann Arbor, Ezra Eby Elementary School – Napoleon, Concord Elementary School – Concord, Heritage Elementary – Stockbridge.
The Michigan Center for the Photographic Arts/Dale Fisher Galleries is located at 1916 Norvell Road, Grass Lake, MI (517) 522-3705.
V, photo by Jurgen Nation
Looks great large, makes great wallpaper too! Anastacia has a ton of photos (including this one) and ordering information on her photography web site.
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