Golf courses providing wildlife habitat, bird photographer of the year, and a red silk dress that took 14 years to complete are a few interesting stories I’ve enjoyed.

What a pleasant surprise to find a juvenile Rose-breasted grosbeak stop by the platform bird feeder.

In late September, bright red, yellow, white, purple, blue, and orange flowers are blooming throughout my garden.

An unexpected visitor, and perhaps a first sighting, at this week's Detroit River Hawk Watch in southeast Michigan.

It's been a while since I've considered a different web browser, so I'm taking a look at Vivaldi, a privacy-focused web browser.

At Canton Township's 25th anniversary September 11 memorial service, US Representative Debbie Dingell asked attendees to decide what that memory asks of us.

September 11 commemoration events in southeast Michigan on the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

I was at my son's grade school, volunteering in the Media Center on September 11, 2011.

After a day of severe thunderstorms and two confirmed tornadoes in metro Detroit, a rainbow is a welcome sight at the end of the day.

Join other southeast Michigan gardeners at one of the many native plant swaps and sales happening this fall.

What a treat to harvest my first potatoes I've ever grown from my vegetable garden.

What I remember and admire about Dolly Parton was her Christian faith, which she lived out daily, philanthropy, and the kindness and empathy she showed toward people.

When I was growing up, there wasn’t any sound better than hearing the jingle of the Good Humor ice cream truck on a summer afternoon.

In my infrequent series of On This Day series, I take a trip back in time (since 2009) to read posts I published on August 19.

Despite being thousands of miles/kilometers away, tanks to NASA's livestream, I was able to watch Europe's total solar eclipse.

On August 12, 2026, folks along a narrow path in Europe will view their first total solar eclipse since 1999.

The copper-colored ten-foot tall sculpture of an elongated egret, Guardians of the Huron River, rises from the bank of the Huron River in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

My thanks to Mastodon gardening colleague Richard Rollinson who gave me permission to publish his family's chili sauce recipe.

Mistaken for a long, slender green leaf, an American Copper butterfly caterpillar made its way across gray pavement to the safety of green grass.

Finally getting around to publishing on this blog what's blooming in my garden this month.