Category Archives: Hobbies

Photo Friday: Heronry by Sentrawoods.

May 15, 2009 – 2:40 pm

The photo featured today shows a cluster of nests at a Michigan heronry and was shot by Sentrawoods. Sentrawoods. adds: This location was shown to me by my local flickr friend gerrybuckel. If you enlarge this you’ll see seven maybe eight heron’s nesting. I plan on getting much closer in the days to come. The [...]

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100 Hours of Astronomy

March 26, 2009 – 2:06 pm

The 100 Hours of Astronomy project (100HA) is a worldwide event with a wide range of public outreach activities including live webcasts, observing events and more taking place during a 100-hour period in early April. One of the key goals of 100HA is to have as many people as possible look through a telescope as [...]

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Wooodward Dream Cruise 2008

August 21, 2008 – 9:48 am

Absolute Michigan’s video correspondents Scott Allman and Jim McClain have some great shots of the cars along with interviews with the interesting and colorful characters that make up the world’s largest one-day car event: It’s definitely worth clicking over to see the high quality version. 2008 Woodward Dream Cruise by Wigwam Jones Another must see [...]

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Michigan Word of the Week: Toy

December 10, 2007 – 10:43 am

Chim-Chim by jnhkrawczyk The word of the week this week is toy. If you don’t want to end up with the 2007 version of Chim-Chim (or some toy that ends up being recalled for lead), why not try and take it more local this year? A few of the cool links we found are Down [...]

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Shop Michigan: Travel Folding Cribbage Set from Drueke

November 29, 2007 – 9:01 am

At just under four inches long when folded, the Travel Folding Cribbage Set is great to take on any trip, and it even comes with playing cards. It’s a must-have for any cribbage fan. The Drueke Company was founded in 1914 in Grand Rapids, filling the gap left when World War I made it impossible [...]

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Absolute Michigan Pool – 15,000 photos and growing

July 3, 2007 – 10:03 am

This morning, practically as I watched, the photodometer on the Absolute Michigan pool on Flickr rolled over to 15,000. The photo from Detroit International River Days maybe wasn’t as dramatic as some of the others Connie (One Foot Over the Moon) added this morning (such as this one of the RenCen). It does however, showcase [...]

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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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Kite Cam at the Kite Festival

May 21, 2007 – 8:52 am

DigitalSkyPilot.Com took some great aerial photos taken with a kite-mounted camera at the Grand Haven Kite Festival. Click to see his photos from the Grand Haven Kite Festival. Share this:

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Great Lakes Kite Festival in Grand Haven

May 7, 2007 – 9:22 am

KITES! by yerffej9 (updated April 9, 2008!) The annual Great Lakes Kite Festival will be held May 16-18, 2008 at Grand Haven State Park in Grand Haven, Michigan. The event benefits the Children’s Leukemia Foundation and features: Giant kites including the Giant Octopus and Trilobite kites (over 90 feet long) Demonstration field featuring kite ballets, [...]

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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 [...]

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