Category Archives: Homes & Real Estate

the evolution by buckshot.jones

Here's a guest article from buckshot.jones' excellent Detroit Journal.

Here's the process of prairiefying a city:

A city is built on the river, allowing for trade and commerce and irrigation of farms.
The city prospers and more people move in, the city expands. Farms on the edge of town are converted to housing, forest further on [...]

M is for Monday … and Midwest, MCS, Michigan Agriculture and MORELS!

Morels ! by cedarkayak
The latest issue of Midwest Living feature on the Best Midwest Food Towns served up a platefull of restaurants in our region that might entice the culinary tourist. Their editors selected Traverse City as the #2 town and Ann Arbor #3. Also featured were a collection of recipes from Traverse City including [...]

Downsizing Flint … on purpose

Abandoned building in Flint - Colors by Derek Farr ( DetroitDerek)
The New York Times has a great report titled An Effort to Save Flint by Shrinking It that begins:
Instead of waiting for houses to become abandoned and then pulling them down, local leaders are talking about demolishing entire blocks and even whole neighborhoods.
The population [...]

Sprung: Michigan Spring Photos

Click this photo from Brooke Pennington for the Spring slideshow from our Absolute Michigan pool on Flickr!
Here's the link to Brooke's photo (which you can see bigger in his Spring photo gallery) and here is some Spring wallpaper from Michigan in Pictures.

Weird Wednesday: Stonehenge Reloaded

The last Wednesday of every month is a "Weird Wednesday" on Absolute Michigan, when we feature offbeat stories from the Great Lakes State. Check out more Weird Wednesdays from Absolute Michigan.
Here's a video feature that we last showed so long ago, it should feel new to just about everyone! Thanks Jim for the reminder...

Wally Wallington [...]

Photo Friday: it starts tiny, it starts slow by caterpillars

caterpillars (Laura) has a degree in anthropology and studio arts, many cameras (mostly film) and a yard full of lionhead rabbits. She will also totally shoot your wedding, event, or portrait, so contact her.
Check out her Michigan slideshow. Her photo sets include metro-detroit, MCS and SuperSampler you may just want to dive into her Flickriver.

Photo Friday: With St. Anne, Church People by fotek

fotek is working on a great set of Photomatix HDR photos of St. Anne's Church in Detroit (slideshow). He says that it's such a beautiful church that pictures will never do it justice, but I think he may be wrong.
Some of his other sets include Detroit and Mt. Clemens and you should check out his [...]

When Ice Attacks: Saginaw Bay homes damaged

Embedded video from CNN Video
Weird Wednesday already? Nope. Huge piles of ice were pushed by NE winds into homes along Linwood Beach (just north of Bay City), forcing evacuations and causing damage. Linwood Beach residents return to find ice piled around, inside and atop their homes from the Bay City Times begins:
"I was making a [...]

March Michigan Event Calendar

The Mirror Image of March by PLskell
Our Michigan event calendar for the month of March features all kinds of signs that spring is just around the corner with some reminders that objects around the corner may be further off than they appear.

Introduce your Michigan Business or Organization

snowy field by PepOmint
Here's a page where you can say "hello" and tell everyone a little bit about your Michigan business, nonprofit, community organization, or other web site or blog. Feel free to add a comment below and definitely include a link to your web site!
If you already introduced your business on Volume 1 of [...]