LANSING — Lead line replacement, cleaning up contamination, increasing government transparency, and strengthening the state’s energy infrastructure are a few of the priorities represented in Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budget. The Michigan Department of ...
The night was strange with wild winds swirling and twirling. I stood out there with rain falling on me. There was still more than three feet of snow on the ground. From behind the ghost-like clouds that were gliding around the heavens, I could see the shine of the moon trying to break through, to shimmer, to be seen. Seemingly, if the moon could only show its pock-marked face, the falling and wind-swept rain — the obvious unseasonable interloper here — would stop. If only. The paper birch trees seemed like they were melting, retracting with the cold rain spattering down ...
“They said, ‘What’s up is down.’ They said, “What isn’t, is.’ They put ideas in his head that he thought were his,” – Bob Dylan I’m walking down a snow-covered two-track road with the gray-blue skies overhead catching my eye as the sunlight peeks through briefly and touches down across the forested landscape. The ice glazed over the bare branches on the trees begins to glisten and shimmer in the sunlight. The air is cool and refreshing as I take deep breaths and keep walking. I’ve been out here for a while now. I passed an ice- and snow-covered beaver pond, ...
More than 81 million Americans camped in 2024, including 5.8 million first-time campers, according to a new report from The Dyrt, a popular camping app that tracks industry trends. The company released its 2025 Camping Report last month, highlighting shifts in camping behavior and ongoing ...
MUNISING — Pure Michigan is encouraging travelers to stop and smell the tulips this year through its promotion of slow tourism practices. The Pure Michigan campaign predicts that the slow travel trend will surge in popularity in 2025 as people seek ways to unwind from “years of ...
In a dark deep canyon, on a north-facing slope where sunlight rarely shines, a couple of fallen trees had been laid across a big drop in the narrow trail. A tiny creek twisted back and forth below. After the winter snows fall, the trees vanish under the accumulation of snow and ice, providing the appearance of a magnificent ice bridge. Walking across it, I feel like I’m walking on air or smoke. It reminds me of those bridges sometimes seen in old scary movies or television shows, those dreamy conveyances depicting a hazy, foggy pathway spanning this world and the next, or winding ...
