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I’ve been staying close to home this summer. The weather has been conducive to gardening and I have been fortunate enough to get plenty of calls from people who need their gardens cleared of weeds and their overgrown shrubbery pruned. It is great work, and it keeps me outside for hours on end. Needless to […]

Late in the afternoon of August 9th, the Japanese Gardens at Delaware Park were full of walkers, runners, and several wedding parties. The brides and grooms and their families and friends were busy having their pictures taken in that very idyllic setting. The Japanese Gardens are located on mirror lake behind the Buffalo History Museum

On a beautiful June day, we walked from Paw Paw to Kalamazoo. My feet had adjusted to the daily pounding, and I was feeling good. The On the Ground to Ground the Drones group had bonded and it felt good to walk through Michigan with my walker family. little pieces of sunlight by the side

Michigan is a state that I had never visited in the past. When I travel via bus or train to Chicago, I don’t go into Michigan. I go through New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois… but no Michigan. If I were to travel via Canada, I would go into Michigan. But I digress. I

a pantoum about day two of the on the ground to ground the drones walk (Chicago to Battle Creek) I walk past shells of old industrial plants, In a place that time erased from existence, So close to the skyscrapers of Chicago Yet this poisoned place feels like a different world. In a place that

Diane Lopez Hughes and Maya Evans explore Michigan City. For two nights, a campsite at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was our home. It was not only home to us and a variety of other campers, it was also home to a large quantity of mosquitoes and other biting insects. The insects discovered Maya Evans

It rained all day on June 4th. The sky was a dull gray, as was the landscape. We walked past the decayed shells of former industrial plants. The heavy industry that had not been abandoned belonged to oil companies, mostly BP. Much of the housing had been abandoned and was boarded up. The air smelled

Stretching hands on a long bus ride. That was my view of the person sitting in front of me. On June 3rd, I arrived in Chicago, after riding on buses all night. Oh, that was one wild adventure. The bus to Cleveland was an easy ride but the bus from Cleveland to Chicago? Well, that

Betsy and Ann took me to the seashore on Monday, April 27th. We traveled west from Bend and descended from the snowy mountains to lower, greener ground. The view from the car window was spectacular. I saw tall mountains covered with snow and valleys. I saw large bodies of water and towns and farms. After

The Oregon Garden is an 80-acre botanical garden, located in Silverton, an historic town in Marion County. One interesting feature of Silverton, which I did not see during my visit, is the Frank Lloyd Wright house, located next to the Oregon Garden. It is known as the Gordon house. You can find more information about