The grand finale, originally uploaded by Red Wing Fan Mike.

I was perusing flickr.com in search of interesting photos of Michigan fireworks displays from years past. When I came across this one from Manchester’s fireworks display in 2005 I immediately thought it looked like a dandelion head.

Don’t you remember blowing those seeds all over the yard as a child? Anyway, I could not believe the uncanny resemblence it had and thought it was pretty cool.

Have a great weekend!

I found this neat site that lets you choose from a bunch of different major U.S. cities and then set off a fireworks display using the Shockwave Flash player. Wouldn’t you know it? Detroit was one of the options :)!
It is a fun little waste of time. You just click [...]

From safety to aesthetics, www.wikihow.com has all of the tips for having a safe and fun fireworks show for the 4th of July. Remember that in Michigan it is illegal to shoot off fireworks that explode, spin or leave the ground. If you want to see showers with a myriad of colors launching [...]

Other than one weekend out of the year during South Haven’s Harborfest (which took place June 16-18) you don’t get the chance to go inside the South Haven lighthouse. Well, not anymore. I am helping you out by providing a link to a short (just under 1.5 minutes long) video showing the inside [...]

Conflict in the Mid-East, increased demand for holiday travel, more costly summer fuel. Whatever excuse the big oil companies are using, you can expect to pay more for gas across Michigan and wherever else you might be traveling this weekend.
Around southwest Michigan the prices jumped more than $.30 from $2.77 to $3.09 during the [...]

The truth, it is said, is stranger than fiction. This is one of those true stories.
In May, Mary and Elmer Irish discovered a rather large egg in the woods. The egg weighed around 3 pounds and measured 19.5 inches on the long side by 15.5 inches around the middle. Based upon photographs [...]

Susan Ager is still traveling across Michigan visiting places that folks tell her to go. Her most recent request came from Hank DeSautel who lives in Adrian. He had not seen his brother in 25 years and at age 88 can not make the trip up to Grand Marais himself.
He told [...]

Did you know that freighters traveling the Great Lakes receive their mail by a pail on the Detroit River? The J.W. Westcott Company has been delivering the mail by boat for over 100 years. Today, the mail is sent up the side of freighters via a five gallon bucket - affectionately known [...]

I made an “oops” with the link to the slide show of shipwrecks that I posted yesterday. I have it fixed now so you can enjoy the show!
Sorry about that

Remember Bill Clinton’s successful presidential campaign in 1992? The Democratic strategist, James Carville, hung a sign in Clinton’s campaign headquarters that had the following three points -

Change vs. more of the same
The economy, stupid
Don’t forget health care.

You know, both Granholm and DeVos could both be using those three points in their campaigns this [...]