
Five things you need to know for Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Welcome to a special "Big Wednesday" edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan.
Big Surf in Grand Haven
The Grand Haven Tribune has a feature on meteorologist Will Beaton, who has realized his life-long dream of surfing and…

Fall Color Tours: Mackinaw City - Charlevoix - Petoskey
outside east jordan, mi. by redmudball
The photo to the right is of the St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church of East Jordan (link) and is part of Casey's Fall in East Jordan set.
While the color is still in full bloom in the Upper Peninsula,…

Warm weather makes Michigan a little giddy
Pier jumpers in October by Five eyes
Michigan has experienced a record run of heat, with many places such as Mt. Pleasant (which topped a 100+ year old record for the hottest October day) shattering their record temps over the last few…

Word of the Week: Lighthouse
Betsie Lighthouse by wuji9981
The word of the week is lighthouse, and with 116 lighthouses (more than any other state), Michigan could well be known as the Lighthouse State. More lights means more preservation needed, and the Michigan Lighthouse…

Photo Friday: At the old ball game... by kcjacoby
On Monday morning I started looking through photos from folks I know in Detroit and started seeing all kinds of pictures from Tiger Stadium. Over this whole week, photos have been popping up from a lucky group of photographers who had the…

Michigan Fall Color Tour: The Pictured Rocks
Miners Castle - October 2006
Let's jump over to the eastern side of the UP for the next color tour of Munising - Newberry - Grand Marais ... and the Pictured Rocks.
The highlight of this tour is of course the stunning Pictured Rocks…

Photo Friday: Mushroom Threes by cactus4christ
Dan Walterscheid (cactus4christ) says he's into creative photography & art, graphic & digital design and also horticulture. I'm pretty sure he would tell you "Don't eat these mushrooms!" because they look like members of the extremely…

Michigan's Wine Grape Acreage Continues to Grow
the fruit by artsy_T
A recent report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that Michigan's wine grape acreage grew 12% from 2003 to 2006. Wine grape acreage in Michigan has increased 60% over the last 10 years.
"This updated data…

Michigan Fall Color Tour: The Keweenaw Peninsula
Our second fall color feature (in conjunction with Michigan in Pictures) is the Keweenaw Peninsula, way up north and surrounded by the icy waters of Lake Superior, is one of the first places in Michigan to be touched by autumn's paintbrush.
Michigan.org's…

Farewell to Comerica
comerica park by jhoneyman49
I'm not sure if this photo of Comerica Park was taken last night at the last Detroit Tiger home game of 2007, but it's a gorgeous photo of a gorgeous ball park.
With the season all over except for the last…

20k
This photo was the 20,000th photo added to the Absolute Michigan pool on Flickr. For the last 2 weeks I've been watching the number climb and wondering if it would be a photo of a Michigan icon like the Mackinac Bridge (#19,999), a breaking…

Michigan Fall Color Tour: The Western Upper Peninsula
This was also posted on today on Michigan in Pictures along with a great view of Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park - check it out!
View from the Top by MoodyGoat
Ironwood - Silver City - Wakefield is the first Michigan fall color…
