Thank you for flying with Great Blue Heron Airlines
April 7, 2010
Great Blue Heron, photo by leonb47
Feel free to move about the cabin…
Check this out background bigtomic or in Leon’s Birds slideshow. For more on Ardea herodias see Know Your Michigan Birds: Great Blue Heron.
Even little blue ones are early…
April 6, 2010
Anyone know what these little flowers are called? They’ve always been a sign of spring for me and like daffodils and everything else in 2010, they’re out early.
Check this out bigger in her YIP 2010 slideshow.
Play Ball! Detroit Tigers Opening Day 2010
April 5, 2010
have a seat in my time machine, photo by 1ManWithACamera.
The Detroit Tigers open the 2010 baseball season in Kansas City at 4:10 PM today. The Baseball Almanac says that since 1901, the Detroit Tigers are 58-50 on Opening Day. On April 26, 1992 when Larry took his nephew Aaron to his first Tiger game, the Bengals came up short to the Blue Jays, 2-4. Here’s hoping that the boxscore in 2010 looks more like the 15-2 crushdown that the Tigers laid on the Texas Rangers last year.
Over on Absolute Michigan we have our Detroit Tigers Opening Day 2010 Blog Roundup. More at absolutemichigan.com/Tigers and from Michigan in Pictures.
Check this out big as a ballpark and see more in Larry’s Detroit Tigers and their ballparks set (slideshow).
Easter Bunnies
April 3, 2010
I hope you have a Happy Easter if you’re having Easter and a great weekend in any case.
See this and more in Jim’s slideshow and see more of his work at jimhuntphotography.com.
Michigan Events in April are Dillys
April 2, 2010
Dillys, photo by docksidepress.
“In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.”
~Mark Twain
Every month Absolute Michigan posts a Michigan Event Calendar, and the month of April is no exception. In addition to Tax Day (boo!), Earth Day (yay!), Opening Day (Monday!) and April Fool’s Day (yesterday!), April has a bunch of great events.
Some highlights are the National Trout Festival in Kalkaska, Vermontville’s venerable 69th Maple Syrup Festival (and the whippersnapper 51st Shepherd Maple Syrup Festival), the Blossomtime Festival in St. Joseph/Benton Harbor, Bellaire’s Great Lakes Art Fair the Detroit Music Awards, the Green Street Fair in Plymouth and the Michigan International Wine Expo in Novi.
April is also Michigan Wine Month and you’ll want to stay tuned to Absolute Michigan for all kinds of Michigan wine-related giveaways & features!
Be sure to check this out bigger and in Matt’s April ’09 Grand Rapids set (slideshow).
Shark Attack Triple X: The Michigan Shark Experiment
April 1, 2010
Shark Attack Triple X, photo by jnhkrawczyk.
Via the Herald-News in Roscommon:
…3 lakes in northern Michigan have been selected to host “an in-depth study into the breeding and habits of several species of fresh-water sharks.” Two thousand sharks are to be released into the lakes including blue sharks, hammerheads, and a few great whites.
The experiment is designed to determine whether the sharks can survive in the cold climate of Michigan, and apparently the federal government is spending $1.3 million to determine this. A representative from the National Biological Foundation is quoted as saying that there will probably be a noticeable decline in the populations of other fish in the lake because “the sharks will eat about 20 pounds of fish each per day, more as they get older.”
County officials have protested the experiment, afraid of the hazard it will pose to fishermen and swimmers, but their complaints have been ignored by the federal government. Furthermore, fishermen have been forbidden from catching the sharks. The report concludes by again quoting the National Biological Foundation representative, who says that “We can’t be responsible for people if they are attacked. Besides, anyone foolish enough to believe all this deserves to be eaten.”
Jill took this at The Heidelberg Project in Detroit. See it bigger in her Found Art slideshow.
