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Saturday is Opening Day of Deer Season in Leelanau!

November 14, 2025

Opening Day is Michigan's largest unofficial holiday, and provides a big chunk of the $2.3 billion dollars that hunting in Michigan brings in.

Hunter’s Moon & Taurid Meteors

November 4, 2025

Nature is particularly cooperative around the time of the autumnal equinox to make the fall full moonrises special.

Double Rainbow in Sleeping Bear Dunes Lakeshore!

October 28, 2025

The current lake-effect rain shower situation is perfect for rainbows.

Leelanau Fall Color is Straight Ahead!

October 22, 2025

Mark Smith shared this absolute banger of fall photo from a vineyard in deepest Leelanau County with fall colors at their peak & grapes galore!!

Don’t forget about Leelanau’s Black Bears during Fat Bear Week!

September 29, 2025

While neither Leelanau County nor Michigan has brown bears, our native black bear population is out there in the woods right now, actively searching for the raw materials to pack on the pounds

Fall Color on M-22

September 26, 2025

Ten years ago I featured this photo from Craig of M-22 south of Leland on my Michigan in Pictures Facebook.

Ride the Calm to September’s Beauty

September 23, 2025

Renee Kaufman reminds us that September has turned up the beauty meter with sunshine, warmth and calm waters.

Jeff Lamb’s Leelanau Fall

September 16, 2025

On mornings like this when fall is touching the tips of the leaves, I like to remember photographer & friend Jeff Lamb who passed on fourteen years ago.