Entries by leelanau.com

Thunder Snow!

Yesterday we had a (relatively) rare occurrence of a phenomenon known as “thunder snow” that prompted me to dig out a feature from the Northern Michigan Journal: Winter Thunder by Jerry Dennis Thunderstorms are rare this far north in the winter. It takes rising heat to make them, and snow doesn’t give off much of […]

Spring Break 2011

While we aren’t going anywhere for Spring Break (unless someone wants to send a few tickets our way!), we are going to take the week off – we’ll be back when everyone else gets back! Photo credit: Spring Snowdrop by Trish P. – K1000 Gal

Videos from Winter to Spring to the Moon … and back again

The Glen Arbor page on Facebook shot a beautiful video yesterday of a serene canoe ride down the decidedly un-springlike snow on the Crystal River.  Check out the video in high quality on Facebook (normal quality). Trish posted a cool little flip-book of last Friday’s Super Moon rising over Suttons Bay. You can see more shots […]

Political Football with the 2011 Park Service Budget

The Leelanau Enterprise reports that partisan politics in Washington are being blamed for a failure by the Senate and House of Representatives to agree on operational funding for the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and other entities in the National Park System. The Lakeshore is Leelanau’s #1 tourist attraction and expects about the same usage […]

Leelanau County: Raptor Mecca

The Grand Traverse Insider has a very interesting feature that explores what makes Leelanau County so attractive to birds, especially raptors. They asked Dave Barrons, educator and former Chief Meteorologist for TV 9&10 News about it, and he explained: “The large raptors don’t like to cross water,” he said. “In fact, most birds don’t. We […]

Sleeping Bear film captures Michigan film awards

The Birmingham Patch reports that in this weekend’s Uptown Film Festival held Saturday night in partnership with the Detroit Independent Film Festival the short film Sleeping Bear picked up three Michigan Film awards including Best Experimental Film, Best Editing for director Jack Cronin and Best Michigan Short Film. Filmmaker Jack Cronin’s website says that Sleeping […]