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Hiking in the Saugatuck Harbor Natural Area
Over the Labor Day weekend Cynthia and I spent a day hiking in the Saugatuck Harbor Natural Area. If you haven't been, or haven't heard of it, I can't recommend it highly enough! It starts at the north...
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Blandford Nature Center, 9 October, 2011
October 9 was a great day for a walk around Blandford Nature Center. Warm air, lots of sunshine, light breeze, and all the animals were out soaking up some mid-autumn sunlight. Click the photo to see...
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Some Leaves
Clicking any of the photos will take you to the Lightbox set on Flickr.Tags: photographylight boxnature
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Hardy Dam Rustic Nature Trail
Back in mid-August my girlfriend and I spent an afternoon in Newaygo, walking along the Muskegon river just downstream from the Hardy Dam. The local Boy Scouts worked with Consumer's Power to mark out...
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Rosy Mound Natural Area
This past Saturday I took a long walk along the beach at the Rosy Mound Natural Area in Ottawa County. The highlight: a pair of bald eagles eyeballing me from a tree at the edge of the dunes. Click...
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Red-Tailed Hawk in Downtown Grand Rapids
Yesterday a large red-tailed hawk took a breather on a light pole just outside the Cynergy offices. I managed to grab a few shots before it took off. Clicking any of the photos will take you to the...
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Pickerel Lake, 26 December, 2011
Photos taken the day after Christmas at Pickerel Lake in West Michigan. Click the photo above to see the rest of the set on Flickr.Tags: Pickerel LakenaturephotographyMichigan
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Sunset, December 31, 2011
Yesterday afternoon I drove out to Kirk County Park in Ottawa County, on the shore of Lake Michigan, to catch the last sunset of the year. Click any of the photos below to see the rest of the set. Or...
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Photos From A Walk Around Seidman Park
Yesterday was beautiful, and for the first time in WEEKS I had nothing in particular to do, so I spent a good chunk of the afternoon wandering around Seidman Park.There were many patches of green,...
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Great Horned Owl
This is a Great Horned Owl which was chased into my yard by a red-tail hawk. It stayed in a freshly-budded cottonwood tree from late afternoon until after dark. Two crows periodically stopped by to...
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A Walk Around Pickerel Lake
The sky north of Grand Rapids looked blue, so I spent the late morning and noon hours wandering around Pickerel Lake. If you haven't been, I recommend it highly. Pickerel Lake Park and Fred Meijer...
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Kirk Park, Christmas Eve 2013
By Christmas Eve the ice had stopped falling and we had an inch or so of snow taking the edge off. This made it fairly easy to drive out to Kirk Park in time to catch the sunset over Lake Michigan. I...
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Lake Michigan, Mid-January 2014
Four weeks after my Christmas Eve walk around Kirk Park I returned to Lake Michigan to see what had changed, and to try out my new camera.The extreme cold of the past few weeks increased the ice cover...
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Duck Lake State Park, February 16, 2014
On February 16, feeling like I just wasn't cold enough, I drove out to Duck Lake State Park and wandered around the lakeshore for a couple of hours. It was a beautiful day, though very cold, and...
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Butterflies at the Frederick Meijer Gardens
On March 15 I visited the Frederik Meijer Gardens with my good friend Andrea, to take in the warmth and butterflies of the arboretum. If you have never been, I recommend the experience. After a winter...
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Seidman Park, March 30, 2014
By the end of March the thaw had begun. Temperatures were up and the vast piles of snow were diminishing rapidly. But we had SO much snow that the thaw was (and is) a long, ongoing process. Seidman...
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Morning Tai Chi Practice at Er Fu Temple
Tai Chi practice in the morning at Er Fu Temple in District 5, SaigonTags: vietnamphotographymartial arts
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Pensive Groundhog is Pensive
Though I am sure they have been around for a while, this is the first year I have seen groundhogs in my neighborhood. Add these to the raccoons, opossums, skunks, red squirrels, grey squirrels, ground...
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