All Blog Posts Tagged 'Nature' (8)

From the viewing platform at the Skegemog Swamp

By MIKE NORTON

One of the things I love most about winter is its transformative power – the way it can turn a familiar, easily ignored landscape into something surreal and otherworldly in a matter of hours.

Sometimes the…

Photo courtesy of  The Great Race

A 1914 Overland on display during the 2011 Great Race, which went from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Bennington, Vermont.

By MIKE NORTON

Summer is here in earnest, it seems – and in Traverse City the pace of all the various festivals and events is beginning to pick up. Here are three great opportunities for the…

Sometimes we are so concerned with traveling to far off exotic lands to have something exciting to write about, but sometimes there are interesting places within a short drive of where we live. Before I go someplace I always try to find…

It was the perfect day for a relaxing stroll through Powell Gardens. The day started warm and everything was green and blooming out. The majority of the flowers were blooming in the most brilliant colors and shades throughout the gardens making for a tranquil walk through several very different areas.

The Perennial Gardens offered a plethora of vividly colored perennials that made for a stimulating walk through the concrete and brick path that wound lazily around the…

Despite the unyielding, brisk wind blowing down the Ole Missouri River, I had the pleasure of visiting the Remington Nature Center. Upon stepping through the entrance, I was immediately confronted with a life-size mammoth standing guard at the front desk. It was obvious that the long, reddish-brown fur was grown to protect the mammal from the cold of the ice age. Its tusks extending out and looked monstrous as I stood there dwarfed by the sheer size of this creature. After a moment of…

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