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I took a hike in my favorite woods and someone was playing bagpipes! It was magical. I felt like Merida ready to take on a bear. #PureMichigan

A path through the woods in Michigan, featuring trees in full leaf and an inviting uphill path begging to be climbed. Not pictured: bagpiper.

Old Mackinac Point Lignhouse, Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse, Mackinaw City, Michigan. May 2025
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#Lighthouse #architecture #building #clouds #coastal #fence #landscape #lawn #lighthouse #newtopographics #none #pentax_fa31limited #pentaxk3mkiii #puremichigan #sky #tower #vehicles #nowherediary #subjectivelyobjective #thisisnthappiness #banalmag

A photograph of the historic Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse, a tan brick building with a bright red roof and a tall cylindrical tower. It stands behind a white picket fence on a cloudy day. A seagull flies overhead.

Late spring 🦢 #westbloomfieldlake #puremichigan #nature #michigan #birds #photography

Wild Phlox on a beautiful summer day. #PureMichigan #BloomScrolling

A sprawl of purple and white phlox, tangled like gossip in the breeze. Tall stems, pastel blooms, dancing in the breeze like they know they’re being watched. Summer, showing off again.

#Sunrise #PureMichigan #Saturday

The proud red maple is in full leaf in our front yard, watching the sun come up over the hills across our dirt road. Nothing but blue skies above. The grass and hills are a lush green from all our rain.

May is Jewish American Heritage Month! Here’s an essay I wrote for our local library about Michigan’s first Jewish cemetery, which happens to be in our small college town. If you’re wondering how smoothly that went, I’ve included an ad from a local paper at that time:

https://aadl.org/jewishburialground #mazeldon #antisemitism #puremichigan

An advertisement run weekly in an Ann Arbor, MI newspaper in the mid-1800s. The ad headline is “Opposition to Jews!”

Nothing too bad in south central Michigan last night. Intense lightning, heavy rains, some wind. The morning glitters. #PureMichigan #severeweather #May2025

Looking at our side yard from the deck; the oaks are all leafed out and the grass and hills beyond are bright green. In the foreground a colorful spinner turns.

Late tonight/early am for southern Michigan. Stay weather aware, Mitten friends. www.mlive.com/weather/2025... #PureMichigan #miwx

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Weather coming in late tonight, Michigan. https://www.mlive.com/weather/2025/05/tornado-severe-thunderstorm-timeline-for-michigan-today.html #PureMichigan #severeweather #SevereThunderstorms #miwx

I moved my big geranium flower pots outside today. And so it begins! https://www.mlive.com/weather/2025/05/are-we-finally-done-with-frost-and-safe-to-plant-gardens.html #PureMichigan #May2025 #Plants #Gardening

#SilentSunday #May2025 #PureMichigan

Our front yard at sunrise; lots of a green grass! In the foreground, there are two trees, one with green leaves and the other with dark red leaves. The sun is rising in the background, casting an orange glow across the sky. There are additional trees and fields visible in the distance. Our “bird tree” is visible on the left (10 ft stump with bird feeders on it)

Even the fire hydrant is in full bloom.
#Spring #Everyday #Dandelion #AnalogPhotography #OlympusXa1 #35mm #ShotOnFilm #PocketCamera #PureMichigan

A yellow fire hydrant in a grassy field with yellow dandelions in the foreground and background.

Be weather aware in the upper Midwest on Monday, and in Michigan on Tuesday. https://www.mlive.com/weather/2025/04/michigan-already-in-severe-weather-forecast-for-early-next-week.html #SevereThunderstorms #PureMichigan #April2025

The latest from the poetry bush near my house: #annarbor #puremichigan

A hand-held brown card with typed poetry reflecting on childhood memories related to a tree:

I was seven or eight
Just a few runs up,
But on top of the world;

It’s blossom is the only scent
It’s bark the only scrape
And it’s dappled dancing the only shade I’ve ever known;

Aloof, there in its branches and boughs I stayed,
Though the tree had been long cut down.

The boys are on their walk between storms; Eddy Charcoal is staying in, albeit grudgingly. Fancy feast helped. Tigers game this afternoon and Pistons playoffs game this evening! Been awhile since we said that. Deeeeetroit basketball! #PureMichigan #April2025 #nba #mlb