This week’s photo was taken by Mark Miller at Empire Beach. Last week we featured another of his photos from this spot – what a difference a few days and a Lake Effect storm can make! Check it out big as the beach and compare it with last week’s photo in Mark’s slideshow.
Along with many sites on the Web, Leelanau.com went dark on January 18th to protest a pair of truly awful bills that are on a fast-track for passage, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House and the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA). Neither of these new laws would stop piracy, which we at Leelanau.com […]
UP North TV has a feature with two Native American poets, Lois Beardslee and Eva Petoskey, reading poetry at Eyaawing Museum that you might enjoy. The artwork to the right was created by Lois, and appears in a cool feature about her years ago by Jim Rink in our Northern Michigan Journal entitled Lois Beardslee, […]
Also check out Martin Luther King’s last visit to Detroit on Absolute Michigan. Building Bridges with Music presents a unique opportunity to hear one of Michigan’s great musicians perform in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, free for the community. Jeff Haas and his colleagues will be joined by international students from Northwestern Michigan College who […]
A pair of fun winter events are on tap for next Sunday… The annual Cedar Winterfest happens from 1-3 PM at the Snowmobile Club 2 miles north of Cedar on Schomberg Rd. You’re invited to bring your winter sleds, tobaggans, saucers, cross country skis and snowshoes for a Sunday afternoon of fun. They’ll have a […]
This week’s photo was taken by Mark Miller at Empire Beach. See more of his great work in his slideshow.
Great art, wine and food are the main events of a special evening, Art from Michigan’s Wine Country which kicks off the Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Association’s Taste the Passion weekend (Feb 4 & 5, 2012). For a fourth year, this fun winter event will be held on Friday, February 3rd at the Homestead’s Mountain Flowers Lodge […]
Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. Thus, the name for January’s full Moon. Sometimes it was also referred to as the Old Moon, or the Moon After Yule. Some called it the Full Snow Moon, but most tribes applied that name to the next Moon. […]
Michigan author Jerry Dennis shared this except from his new book The Windward Shore from University of Michigan Press with us on Absolute Michigan. It features Leelanau’s Lake Michigan shore, so in case you missed it, here is is! The Lake in Winter by Jerry Dennis (January, Cathead Point, near the tip of Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula) It changes […]
This week’s photo is Lake Michigan … from Empire Bluff with a Christmas Eve sunset, from and featuring photographer Ken Scott. See this photo and nearly 300 more in Ken’s snow slideshow!
You can check out all kinds park & trail information on our Sleeping Bear Dunes Homepage and get snow & trail condition updates at Ski Leelanau! There is no better way to get outside and burn off some of those extra holiday calories than by joining a Park Ranger at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore […]
via Michigan in Pictures… Leelanau photographer Ken Scott had a nice New Year’s surprise when his photo was selected as the Earth Science Picture of the Day for Dec 31, 2011. NASA writes: The photo above showing twin iridium flares piercing the night sky was captured above Glen Arbor, Michigan during the evening of September […]