Category Archives: NW

Northwest Michigan

Photo Friday: Walloon Lake View Michigan by artbabee

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! Share [...]

Blissfest Music Festival – Cross Village July 11&12

The Blissfest Music Festival will again present a world of traditional and innovative folk music and dance at the Festival Farm in their peaceful, rural northern Michigan setting. It is truly a blissful musical weekend to be shared with families, friends and music-lovers of all ages. This year’s 28th Celebration will feature Retro and Nouveau [...]

The Week for June 23-29, 2008

Rainbow of Color by Patti Summer has officially arrived and festival season is kicking into full gear! Events for this week include the Detroit Windsor International Film Festival, the Muskegon Summer Celebration kicks off with 11 days of concerts, events, fireworks, arts & crafts and carnival rides, the Alpena Blues Festival, now in it’s 5th [...]

From the Vine: Old Mission Peninsula Wine Trail

As part of our celebration of Michigan Wine Month, we’ll be featuring excerpts on each of Michigan’s five wine trails (and one taking you beyond the trails) from the Michigan Notable Book award-winning From the Vine: Exploring Michigan Wineries. (Old Mission Peninsula AVA) The meso-climate of Old Mission Peninsula is unique not only in the [...]

Wildflower Rescue in Michigan

Trillium by farlane In Michigan, the number of native plants being buried under bulldozers is decreasing, thanks to the efforts of the Cranbrook Wildflower Rescue Committee in southern Michigan and the Leland Wildflower Rescue in northern Michigan. The Cranbrook committee has been in operation for over 25 years, the Leland committee for over 15. Both [...]

Absolute Michigan Sponsor: Earthwork Music

One of our major sponsors is Earthwork Music, a group of fine and creative folks who believe in the power of music. Check their site for plenty of music to listen to and buy, performance schedules and information about the many talented musicians and artists who are a part of Earthwork. They’re playing a benefit [...]

Michigan Plants: Pink Lady’s Slipper

Lady Slipper Flower by cyoas55 The Pink Lady’s Slipper (Cypripedium acaule) or Moccasin Flower is a large, showy wildflower belonging the the orchid family. The heavily veined, deeply cleft pouch of this wild orchid is a distinctive characteristic of this species. Because this plant has an extremely long life cycle, taking many years to go [...]

Discussing Michigan farming & agritourism

Fair Evening by CaptPiper Interlochen Public Radio’s Points North program recently spoke with Michigan Department of Agriculture Director Donald Koivisto about many aspects of farming in Michigan like biofuels and value added agriculture along with challenges to farming operations like food safety, water withdrawals, re-zoning and taxes on farms and availability of migrant labor. Agriculture [...]

Five things you need to know for Thursday, March 27, 2008

Welcome to a special Michigan Homes & Real Estate edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan. Before I dive in I wanted to say a little something about our month themes. We got the word that a) you like them but b) you would like them to be not so loud so [...]

Michigan Video: Iceboating on Elk Lake

Jack & Kelly added this video of ice boating on Elk Lake from March 6, 2008 to the Absolute Michigan group on YouTube. If you have a Michigan video to share, you can do the same! They have a lot more ice boating videos on their YouTube page and also have their web site, elklakeiceboating.com. [...]