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Shop Michigan: Grey Poncho with Boucle Accents from Oak Grove Alpaca

September 20, 2007 – 7:40 am

This Grey Poncho with Boucle Accents is hand woven using Michigan alpaca, and a tiny bit of mohair for some color and is warm and soft and perfect for a night around a bonfire.
Oak Grove Alpaca is a small alpaca ranch near Howell that is committed to raising world-class Huacaya Alpacas. They write:
We are [...]

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Five Things you need to know for Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

July 3, 2007 – 9:54 am

Watch Michael Moore's Sicko online, birdwatch (or apartment hunt) in Detroit's Brush Park, follow the growing Michigan wine industry with a new blog and head over to Fremont, Michigan - baby food capital of the world!

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June 19, 2007: Baseball, birds, biking, Bad Axe … and pensions

June 19, 2007 – 8:41 am

I have to say that as a web developer, I really admire the dynamic ways in which the web team at the Detroit News presents complex information. A great example of this is their interactive teacher pension costs presentation. It makes it point and click simple to see how retirement costs are looming for Michigan's [...]

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Photo Friday: Seney, the sky afire by Kyle Rokos

June 7, 2007 – 8:43 am

There are a lot of things I like about Kyle including the fact that he uploads his photos at huge enough sizes to be great backgrounds, the cool places he goes in the Upper Peninsula, and of course the fact that he too is aware of the phenomenon of Great Lakes submarines.
The Seney National Wildlife [...]

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Photo Friday: Barred Owl by Through Joanne's eye

May 18, 2007 – 9:05 am

Joanne writes: It is hard to top my photo I posted yesterday, but this is what I saw on my lunch hour walk. I walked in the Grand Woods nature trails in Lansing, Michigan. I saw this owl, actually two days in a row, but was able to get a photo today. She seemed to [...]

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Blogs We Dig: Bootstrap Analysis

May 2, 2007 – 9:24 am

Today on Michigan in Pictures we have a post on the Michigan Bird Breeding Atlas II, so it probably makes sense to go bird crazy today on Absolute Michigan.
I don't know what to say about Bootstrap Analysis. According to its author, nuthatch, the term came from a German legend of a man who pulled himself [...]

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Shop Michigan: Birdola Plus Cake from Birdola

May 2, 2007 – 9:02 am

The Birdola Plus Cake is a two pound cake filled with sunflower seeds, safflower, peanuts, millet, calcium, and grit. The cake also has vitamins, minerals, and electrolytes to help keep the birds healthy, happy, and coming back for more.
In 1988 Birdola finally got fed up with the whole process of feeding birds loose seeds, so [...]

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Massive trade sends Legislature, Governor to Guam

April 1, 2007 – 1:55 pm

Dave Dombrowski, Joe Dumars & Jim Leyland,
shown evaluating their new acquisitions.
DATELINE: APRIL 1, 2007, LANSING, MICHIGAN
Residents of Michigan were stunned today by the announcement of a massive trade that sent Michigan's full House, Senate, Governor and a number of key government officials to be named later to the Territory of Guam in exchange for left [...]

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The Michigan Pages: Spring Peepers

March 27, 2007 – 7:46 am

Peeper on a Leaf by Jamuudsen
Last night (and this morning as I wrote this) I heard the very Michigan sound of spring peepers calling. Rather than search around for news (which would most likely be unpleasant), I decided to gather up some spring peeper information that you can use to amaze your friends. Of pseudacris [...]

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Photo Friday: Drinking water

March 16, 2007 – 9:50 am

Catherine Pentescu is a photographer from Kentucky, but she captured this amazing image of a swan on White Lake in Michigan. You can see more of her photos by clicking the image and at Images By Cat.