We were making plans to stay at our friend’s farmhouse outside Benton Harbor, and hoping to meet up with friends who lived in Grand Rapids, and did our normal check on what was going on in the area, what there might be to see, and were surprised when we »
Inverness was everything I hoped for, seemingly the most temperate area, certainly north of the Central Belt; a good location for heading out to explore, even down to London; and lots going on in the arts and technology, a hub for the highlands and islands.
Everywhere I went »
Third and last time in Inverness on this trip. I had been thinking of going up to Wick for the day, but realized, after a not-too-early start and a detour on the way, that would never happen, and stopped when I got to Dornoch and explored the effects of »
It’s a great drive north from Tarbert across the Isle of Lewis. It became an example of how you can never do enough research when I got to the standing stones at Callanish and found them surrounded by cones and tape; there was no one there at the time, »
All the excitement with the Leslie Science and Nature Center in 2016 was over their 30th anniversary and especially the exhibition at the Kerrytown Concert House. I was privileged to be one of the Michigan Artists contributing a piece to the exhibition and was able »
Fall is coming to Black Pond woods. Admittedly, not that much yet. There are quite a few yellowed leaves on the floor. And it is even more difficult to see in the trees themselves. It’s most visible in some of the vines and especially in the sumac.
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On the way back from another hard day out photographing with David Ward in Connemara, we were intrigued by the sight of an island in Derryclare Lough. At first we weren’t sure we could get out to it, but there was a walkway that made it possible. I think »
I know, that doesn’t look much like a photo of a farm. We were fortunate to be able to stay a couple of nights at the farm that Elizabeth’s parents own outside of Benton Harbor. We went into St Joseph for lunch one day and afterwards I went for »
Over a month since I was last in Black Pond Woods at the Leslie Science Center, and while the almost overwhelming color is still »
I thought I would get back out to the Leslie Science Center, or more particularly into the Black Pond Woods. Still thinking of last week’s tree photos, this seemed a great opportunity to hope for something better. Last week I had been looking for the trees against the »
