Calm Before The Storm, photo by Anapko.
Check this photo out bigger. It’s part of Anapko’s Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore set (slideshow).
Check Michigan in Pictures for many more photos from the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and also see this Pictured Rocks slideshow Absolute Michigan pool.
vimeo.com/5676816, photo by Charlie McC.
Charlie has put together a really cool look at an iconic summer sight: bugs, lights and their flight patterns.
matt’s running dock dive, photo by Latitude 45.
This summer has been cooler than usual, so as a Public Service Announcement, Michigan in Pictures and Latitude45 Productions with generous support from Walloon Lake present this handy infomercial on Dock Diving.
Check it out bigger in Martin’s slideshow.
garden fresh, photo by luna.nik
You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook’s year. I get more excited by that than anything else.”
– Mario Batali
Here’s hoping that your dishes have a little (or a lot) of Michigan tomatos and all the other fruit and vegetable bounty that Michigan brings to the table. To help you out, check out Michigan tomatos and the Michigan Farmers Market map on Absolute Michigan.
See this bigger in Niki’s Food slideshow!
PS: I’m at the Traverse City Film Festival all week and watched the documentary Food Inc. and I have to tell you that about all I want to eat today is something that I picked or bought at a farm market!!
PPS: The quotation above came from Absolute Michigan’s July Event Calendar – Steve does a great job setting the seasonal mood while providing you with don’t miss events from all over the state. Check out the August Michigan calendar!
“Waukasansan”, photo by yooper1949.
The Les Cheneaux Antique Wooden Boat Show and Festival of Arts aka the Hessel Boat Show takes place next Saturday (August 8) in Hessel:
Live music plays in Hessel harbor while visitors admire the 150 dinghies, rowboats, canoes, sailboats, runabouts, cruisers and other vintage wooden vessels. Browse the many food and nautical vendors stationed alongside the show, staged at one of Michigan’s most picturesque settings. The Hessel Marina affords a view of the harbor and a handful of islands. Spectators can also board a tour boat that cruises among the 36 Les Cheneaux Islands on Lake Huron, with 2 trips leaving from Hessel pier throughout the day. The Festival of Arts is also on the waterfront, next to the boat show, and 70 exhibitors sell their juried arts and crafts there.
You can see this photo bigger in Carl’s Boats slideshow (view the set)
Opening Ceremony, photo by tcfilmfest.
All week long I’m covering the 5th Annual Traverse City Film Festival in Traverse City for Absolute Michigan: On Location (check the TCFF posts if you’re coming to this after the festival!). It’s a great celebration of film and filmmaking with a healthy dose of Michigan.
Check this out bigger in the 2009 Traverse City Film Festival slideshow (or view the set).
You can get a ton more Michigan film goodness through the Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and blog feeds at Traverse City Film Festival 2009!
Light of Hope, photo by vigo74.
The next Exposure.Detroit show opens Friday, August 7 from 7-10 PM at the Bean & Leaf Cafe in Royal Oak. The theme is Detroit Exposed and the intent is to promote the city as a place to go and do things. Each photo will have a narrative that will not only educate the viewer, but also inspire them to go to the city and see these things for themselves.
This photo is of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (aka MOCAD) on Woodward Avenue one from the show and you can see it bigger in vigo74’s Detroit slideshow.
Check out lots more of the Motor City in the Exposure.Detroit “Detroit” slideshow.
38.5 pounds of love, photo by sethrt.
Every week, Taste the Local Difference posts an article with facts, lore and recipes for foods that grow in Northern Michigan. As a bonus, they have many posts from previous years in their Ready to Pick archive so that folks downstate who are already picking (I’m looking at you, Edward Vielmetti) what’s not yet ready to pick up north.
Blueberries are coming on strong in Michigan, and here’s what their blueberry page has to say about these blue marvels!
More about blueberries from the the Blueberry People (aka the Michigan Blueberry Growers Association) and also Eat Local: Michigan Blueberries from Absolute Michigan.
Be sure to check this amazing haul of blue gold out bigger and check out the blueberry slideshow from the Absolute Michigan pool on Flickr!
Untitled, photo by CourtneyCraven
I read that this year is one of the latest tart cherry harvests, but these look just about ready.
See it bigger in Courtney’s Sleeping Bear Dunes set (slideshow) and check out cherries in the Absolute Michigan pool on Flickr.
Old USCG Mackinaw and New USCG Cutter Mackinaw, photos by Bass Dude
On an average day, the Coast Guard will conduct 109 search & rescue operations, saving 10 lives and assisting 192 people in distress. The Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival is the nation’s largest festival that honors the men and women of the US Coast Guard. It takes place July 24 – August 2 in Grand Haven and features nightly entertainment at Waterfront Stadium, arts & crafts, downtown carnival, parades, ship tours and the world’s largest musical fountain with spectacular fireworks. This year is the 85th annual occurrence of the festival which unofficially began in 1924 as a Coast Guard personnel only picnic and has grown to attract over 350,000 people including the nation’s highest ranking Coast Guard dignitaries.
The Coast Guard Cutters Bristol Bay and Mackinaw will be in Grand Haven for the festival and offering tours. The 290 feet long old Mackinaw (WAGB 83) was built in Toledo, Ohio and commissioned in December 1944 and decommissioned June 10, 2006. It is now the Icebreaker Mackinaw Maritime Museum in Mackinaw City (here’s a tour of the Mackinaw).
The new US Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw (WLBB 30) is the only heavy icebreaker assigned to the Great Lakes. It was commissioned June 10, 2006 and is powered by 3 Caterpillar 3612 Turbocharged V-12 engines – 3360 KW each. Prolusion comes from 2 ABB azimuthing electric propulsion drives where the propulsion motor is installed inside a submerged azimuthing (unlimited 360 degrees) pod and coupled directly to an extremely short propeller shaft. In addition to heavy icebreaking, the Mackinaw has state of the art systems and multi-mission capabilities that include servicing buoys, search & rescue, law enforcement and the ability to deploy an oil skimming system to respond to oil spill situations.
Check out this 360° tour of the Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw and these photos from the Mackinaw’s launch via Boatnerd.
Be sure to check these photos out bigger (old and new) or in Skip’s Boats set (slideshow).
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