Swan Oragamy, photo by MudPhish.
…it’s apparently all the rage these days.
Be sure to check it out bigger.
Hydrant Heaven | Bow-Wow!
Hydrant Heaven | Bow-Wow!, photo by docksidepress.
Sometimes it’s the little things that make a day special.
Part of Matt’s March 2009 set (slideshow).
Fly over to the Grand Rapids Boat Show
1 passenger, photo by joojanta.
Over on Absolute Michigan we’re giving away some tickets to the Grand Rapids Boat Show (Feb 18-22). There’s about 100 boat manufacturers, all kinds of special demos and such so if you’re a boating fan, you might want to enter the giveaway, check out a slideshow from years past on Flickr and the Absolute Michigan “boat” (slide)show!
I doubt they’ll have boats like the one above though, but you never know. joojanta has other views of this crazy contraption here and here.
Stuffed animal road trip: The Big Three return to Washington
Stuffed animal road trip, photo by caterpillars.
Today it’s possible that the future of Michigan gets decided in Washington DC as the CEOs of Ford, GM & Chrysler return to Washington. They’re driving themselves this time (though each in their own cars). Word is that if they fail again, they will all pile onto a solar powered unicycle … or go out of business. (update: see the cartoon!)
Laura writes that this is from The Heidelberg Project in Detroit during a meet-up with Exposure.Detroit on December 20th, 2007 .
The book Connecting the Dots: Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project is pretty cool too if you want to learn more about this unique Detroit project.
The Opossum Family Road Trip
close up, photo by gerrybuckel.
Well, the weekend is here and all around Michigan folks are packing their families into cars for a family getaway. This photo is dedicated to any who are tempted to lose their temper or otherwise complain about their lot.
Gerry has a few more photos of the possum family at her “animals” tag.
Have a great weekend people!
Lighthouse Wanna Be
Lighthouse Wanna Be, photo by Rudy Malmquist.
Because really, who DOESN’T want their own lighthouse?
Exposure.Detroit opening: all the cool duckies will be there
Rubber-Duckies, photo by nichpr
This photo is part of Paul’s Artful set (slideshow). It’s also part of my developing collection of Michigan duck-related phoptography, but the less said about that, the better!
The Exposure.Detroit May Exhibit Opening Party takes place this Friday (May 16) from 7pm – 10pm at the Bean & Leaf Cafe in Royal Oak. The show features five photographers: Paul, Eric, Amy, Nicole and Ross and you can learn more about Exposure.Detroit and the upcoming exhibit from the Exposure.Detroit group on Flickr.
flame on
flame on, photo by jenny murray.
This is part of Jenny’s ttv (through the viewfinder) set (slideshow).
Hope your weekend is as exciting as this mailbox … I’m pretty sure that if you get a tattoo or paint your face like this, it will be!
Lost on vacation
Lost, photo by Terrapin Dawg
One of the great things about being on vacation is getting lost. Not the kind of lost where everyone’s hot and cranky, but rather the kind of lost where you see things you never expected and aren’t even sure you could find your way back.
This photo from Cheboygan County, Michigan is part of a great set of photos of Northern Michigan, which Matt says is his favorite place in the world. (slideshow).
Local food, affordable farms … and cows
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).
Michigan in Pictures 