The Week for March 31 - April 6, 2008


lil white flower by artsy T

OK, it's spring now. Thanks for the great memories, Winter, see you in 8 months or so. As usual, The Week is the place to post comments on what's popping up in your garden or in the Michigan news. You can complain about the weather too if Winter decides not to take the hint!

The photo was taken April 1, 2007 at the Ford's Fairlane Estate and is a fitting way to head into Garden Month on Absolute Michigan. Tina writes that Clara Ford's:

...love of gardening and horticulture was said to be second only to her devotion to her husband and family. Her tastes in gardening were simple, at least as far as design and color were concerned ... She preferred old-fashioned plant varieties such as Bachelor Buttons, Petunias, Irises, Peonies, Tulips, Lillies, Heliotropes, Delphiniums, Forget-Me-Nots, English Primrose, Scilla and, of course, Roses planted in relatively informal patterns.

Click the photo to read more and be sure to check out her slideshow from the Henry Ford Estate.

Last week: March 24-30, 2008



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4 Comments

  1. Absolute Michigan
    Posted April 1, 2008 at 9:31 am | Permalink

    Drain Great Lakes to fill Grand Canyon? - via the Freep

    LANSING -- The State of Michigan is examining a plan to sell about half of its share of the water in the Great Lakes over the next 20 years to drought-stricken areas in the Sunbelt states.

    Dr. U.R. Gullabel, head of the state's Commercial Activation Restoration Project (CARP), said the plan could earn Michigan as much as $116 billion and has been sent to Gov. Jennifer Granholm as a means to solve the state's fiscal problems.

    "One of our economists, Dr. Gno Whey, brought it up at a cabinet meeting a few months ago, and the governor was so delighted she couldn't stop laughing," Gullabel said. "When she told us she was all for it, we contacted Bill Richardson in New Mexico and got the ball rolling."

    Story continued over at the Freep

  2. Absolute Michigan
    Posted April 2, 2008 at 7:40 am | Permalink

    The big burn - America's largest garbage incinerator and the movement to shut it down from this week's Metro Times

    The deadline is fast approaching.

    Within the next three months, Detroit must make a monumental decision regarding the 1 billion pounds of waste its residents produce each year.

    To burn, or not to burn — that is the question.

  3. Absolute Michigan
    Posted April 2, 2008 at 2:07 pm | Permalink

    'Planting' dead Christmas trees at Ludington State Park
    Inmate crew provides labor

    It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Ludington State Park.

    Crews of five or six inmates from the Lake County Residential Re-entry Program are giving the dunes at the park a festive look this week by “planting” hundreds of Christmas trees about a foot deep into the dunes west of the Lighthouse Road. The trees help stabilize the dunes and do it with natural materials.

    Read the rest at the Ludington Daily News website

  4. Absolute Michigan
    Posted April 3, 2008 at 1:53 pm | Permalink

    Federal judge: Michigan prep sports group to pay $7.4 million

    A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Michigan High School Athletic Association must pay $7.4 million in legal fees that could impact the group's financial viability.

    "When the game is complete, the loser should not complain about the rules," U.S. District Judge Richard Alan Enslen wrote in socking the MHSAA with the bill for its decade-long fight to maintain a scheduling system that discriminated against girls in violation of federal law.

    Source: The Detroit News

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