Color, Beauty, and the Birds and the Bees
A male northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) just lighted upon the spruce in the neighbor's wild patch outside our kitchen window. The bird is much brighter now than in February, [...]
Ross Gay in Ann Arbor Today (and Yesterday)
Yesterday evening I had to choose between going to hear M. Scott Momaday or Ross Gay and friends read their work. Oh the riches. I decided to [...]
Eco Book Club at Literati Bookstore
I have so much to tell you. For one thing, just the other day I tasted my first pawpaw, straight from the wild grove that's thriving in [...]
Stumbled Upon This in Ann Arbor
Not the one I bought, but I love this one too. Yesterday, before the humidity and crowds hit, I meandered around the Ann Arbor Street [...]
My Third E x p r e s s i o n s i n I n k at Water Street Gallery
As a poet, one doesn't get (or expect) a lot of assignments, so I find this annual event especially enjoyable, if nerve wracking. As a lover of [...]
Early Spring in Bird Hills
This is Bird Hills, Huron River Watershed, southern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Winter Aconite (Eranthis hightails). Big thanks to Chris Stier and Tim Dykema, who helped [...]