Fun on Pleasant Lake by MWOOD19
Welcome to The Week on Absolute Michigan. Summer is in full swing around the state and candidates in Michigan primaries are trying to chicken dinner their way to an August 6th victory.
Our July Michigan Event Calendar says that events folks can check out this weekend include the Michigan Brewers Guild [...]
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Jennifer took this photo the other day in Evart (Osceola County). It's part of her architecture set (slideshow).
She lives in Cascade and has some other sets you might enjoy including Antrim County, Grand Rapids and (my personal favorite) Torch Lake Summers.
Chuck Jones, the famous Hollywood screen artist, helped create such cartoon characters as Elmer Fudd, the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Pepe Le Pew and others. But of all the fictitious creatures that appeared in his more than 300 films, his favorite animated figure was Michigan J. Frog.
Released in 1955 by Warner Brothers, the first [...]
Blueberry Plum by The Pollyanna Society
Taste the Local Difference - our partner in delivering these "eat local" features - hasn't posted their 2008 feature on the mighty, mighty blueberry. In 2008 Michigan blueberry picking information, Edward Veilmetti writes that blueberries are ready to pick in southern Michigan. Add to that the 3 pounds of Holland-grown [...]
And so is the CSL Tadoussac by mdprovost
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." -Measure for Measure
Hundreds [...]
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Rebeka is a graduate art historian currently working with the Denver Art Museum.
Most of her photos are from Someplace Other Than Michigan but she has a great set from Charlevoix, Cross Village, and Walloon Lake, Michigan (slideshow).
Our "related posts" thing says you might also like Michigan History: Up North with the Hemingways!
Untitled by jenny murray
I hope that readers of Absolute Michigan regularly tune into Model D and its other regional publications Metromode (SE Michigan), Rapid Growth (Grand Rapids), Capital Gains (Lansing) and the latest Concentrate (Ann Arbor). They're really excellent publications that are chronicling the rebirth and re-invention of Michigan in a way that few other [...]
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.Doug Coldwell added this video of the S.S. Badger car ferry coming home past Ludington lighthouse to our group on YouTube. Also check out his video of the Badger from up in the lighthouse, learn more about this vessel at ssbadger.com and have a look at Shaun Davis's videos from the Badger's engine room.
The Absolute [...]
the gardener by jenny murray
The Absolute Michigan pool on Flickr chronicles the storms that rolled through southern Michigan once again last week, downing trees and cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes. On a less destructive note, there are plenty of photos of fireworks and parades. Click over and add your best photo from [...]
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Rudy says he's a sarcastic joke-bomb manufacturer that happens to own a camera.
It also appears that he's a runner who sometimes finds cool things like old firetrucks and old tractors ... and a unique way of framing common scenes. Check out his Top 25 slideshow.
Happy 4th of July folks!
