
The Ultimate Sacrifice: Remembering Michigan's Veterans
The Ultimate Sacrifice - Black and White, photo by DarrinW.
Copied from Michigan in Pictures.
Darrin took this photo at Veterans Cemetery in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I think it's a good idea for everyone to take a pause in their activity…

Photo Friday: safe passage by Where's Walden?
This is a photo from the Boyne City marina on Lake Charlevoix. Megan writes that she climbed over a 'danger: thin ice sign' to take these, but there's no ice yet. It's just one of the photos in her michigan meanderings set (slideshow).
She…

Five Things You Need to Know for Tuesday, November 6 2007
It's an off-year Election Day edition of Five Things You Need to Know about Michigan. Despite the lack of big name offices to decide, there's a lot of the nuts and bolts decisions to make about schools and local government. The Secretary of…

Absolute Michigan Word of the Week: Shipwreck
Sandusky by Michael Schout
The word of the week is shipwreck, and all November on Absolute Michigan we'll be featuring tales of the dangerous side of Great Lakes. A staggering 6,000 vessels have been lost to the fury of these inland seas,…

Photo Friday: Sparty & Bo Pumpkins by sage_82
To say that sage_82 (Mark Ratliff) is a master of the art of pumpkin carving is a huge understatement. His 2006 tribute to Michigan football legend Bo Schembechler and his 2007 Sparty are simply incredible.
Take a moment and check out…

800 photographers and a Photo Friday: At Miller Hill by whatever264
I've been watching the number of photographers in the Absolute Michigan group on Flickr as it approached 800 and thought we might reach the big 8-0-0 today in time for Photo Friday. When I logged on this morning I saw that we were indeed…

Blogs We Dig: RandomSPACE by Lars Jensen
RandomSPACE features the musings and photography of Lars Jensen. Lars explains:
Well, I'm not sure what to say about this place. As the title suggests it is mostly random stuff, although in recent times it has mostly focused on photography…

Detroit Pistons 2007-2008 Basketball Preview
On Wednesday night the Detroit Pistons played their annual exhibition game at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids. Those who came to the game looking for star power were probably disappointed that most of the familiar faces were in street clothes…

Five things you need to know for Thursday, October 18, 2007
Welcome to the "We don't need costumes to scare you, we're politicians" edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan.
Legislation to Repeal Service Tax Introduced
The Freep reports that although the ink is barely dry on the package…

Haunted Michigan
A Haunting on Hemingway by Arace
We'll keep track of the haunting highlights from Michigan on this page as we find them! If you have any to add, please post a link in the comments below or send us an email!
Five (spooky) Things you…

Fall Color Tours: Old Mission, Traverse City, Leelanau & Benzie
Our next stop (as designed by Travel Michigan) is the region of Northwest Lower Michigan containing Traverse City - Northport - Frankfort. This also appeared on Michigan in Pictures. There's a lot of links on Absolute Michigan that can add…

Photo Friday: McLain Lighthouse (Close up) by useful fiction
The word of the week this week on Absolute Michigan was lighthouse, so I thought I'd go to the Absolute Michigan pool and search for "lighthouse". As of this morning, there are 714, and they make a pretty nice slideshow. Rather than taking…
