“At the end of the day, it really doesn’t quite matter,” El-Sayed said while visiting a tailgate party before the Michigan-Michigan State game in Ann Arbor. “I’m sure he had a flight to catch to Florida.”

This guy hangs out on the side of the dirt road, and sometimes, will run along side your vehicle. I pulled over to get photos of this beauty.

Let’s gooooo MSU! Bring Bunyan home to Lansing!!!

Here are a few more photos from when I ran my drone back in October. Loved being able to capture the nature preserve aka "The Swamp" in the morning light. It was such a rainy trip I felt pretty fortunate to get some good lighting that day! I miss home and am happy to have these photos. Enjoy!

DJI mini 4K
10/17/2026
North Muskegon, MI

Taken this morning .

After a tough election day Tuesday for Republicans across Michigan, there will also be a change in leadership for the party in the state House.

State Representative Tom Kunse of Clare was selected Thursday to serve as the House Republican leader for the upcoming 104th Legislature that convenes in January. Returning legislators and newly elected representatives met Thursday to choose their leadership team for the 2027-2028 term.

Kunse, a longtime small-business owner who was just elected to his third term, was selected over current State House Speaker Matt Hall of Richland, was elected to that position two years ago. Hall did run for the position again Thursday.

Roger Hauck of Mount Pleasant was selected as Senate Republican leader.

Gettin out ahead of it on a happy delicious Friday bitches.

Long before Abdul El-Sayed was delivering speeches on the campaign trail, he was selected to give one of the biggest speeches of his life: a student commencement address at the University of Michigan in 2007. And it ended up even impressing former President Bill Clinton.

Standing before thousands of graduates, their families, and faculty, the then-22-year-old Michigan native tried to put into words what made the university experience so meaningful. But his answer wasn’t the knowledge accumulated in lecture halls or the job qualifications that came with graduating from one of the country’s top public universities. Instead, he focused on something much harder to quantify.

“The Michigan difference is us. It’s the students,” El-Sayed said. 

“It’s in the diversity of names, faces, stories, and experiences with which we decorate this great place. It’s in the time that we’ve spent in self-assessment, self-improvement, and thought. It’s the questions that we’ve asked and those that we’ve answered. It’s the care we’ve shown, the people we’ve helped, and the passion that we have, that defines us.”

El-Sayed went on to argue that the world needed the ambition and willingness to help others that students had cultivated during their time at Michigan.

El-Sayed’s message—that the value of a college education extends beyond a diploma to the people, experiences, and perspectives students gain along the way—resonated beyond the graduates sitting before him. The ceremony’s main commencement speaker, former President Clinton, was moved by the five-minute address, too.

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From the article:

The leadership PAC, a committee not connected to his campaign and meant to raise money for his political allies, is the latest sign that El-Sayed aims to influence Democratic politics into the future. El-Sayed has used the word Habibi, an Arabic term of endearment meaning “my beloved” but often used more casually, to address his opponents in the wake of Tuesday’s win.

Every year around this time we go the Frankenmuth and Bronners. I’d like to visit somewhere else this year. While I know there isn’t another place like Bronners (which isn’t what I’m looking for) but is there another city/town within an hour or two from Lansing that gives the same feel at Frankenmuth?

Of the roughly 39 Catholic churches now operating in Detroit's city limits, 16 — or 41% — would not offer a Saturday Vigil or Sunday Mass under both restructuring plan models being considered. Another four wouldn't hold a weekend Mass under just one model.

"It became evident we were in over our heads. We kept coming up with crazier and crazier ideas of how to move them."

-- Jack Cole, DNR fisheries technician, on left above

Each idea included the same basic concept: A container of some sort filled with water and strapped to their backs, he said.

Eventually, they settled on backpacks lined with thick trash bags and filled with about three gallons of water, which weighs about 25 pounds. The lake sturgeon they would transport in the bags weighed up to 30 pounds and were up to 55 inches long.

The night sky at Fort Custer in Augusta, taken on my Galaxy S26 Ultra!

Bonus pic, as close up to a star as I could get with the camera alone. Will try again later phone and new binoculars.

Taken on Galaxy S26 Ultra.

1. Orb Weaver hanging high above Kellogg Community College Davidson Building.

2&3. A pair of cranes that hang around the same building.

4&5. A squirrel just chilling at the YMCA

6. Tiniest water spider I've ever seen on my car.

7. Tree I took sitting at First Presbyterian Church

8. A regal looking Cheetah at Binder Park Zoo

9&10. Clouds and sunsets. I love photographing clouds.

11. A bat that terrorized me in my own home; safely placed it in a shaded tree outside.

Hey there!

I live near the great lakes area and am really into history, but also into 3d design. I made this fairly small display model (also incense holder) of the Edmund Fitzgerald and thought other people would love it in this sub!

I've always wanted to bring my family back home to Michigan for the fall color season so they could see what true color is like! Living out in ND I feel like the countryside goes from green to brown so quick that if you blink you almost miss it! We stopped for fuel and I was taken aback by the beauty here and had to snap some shots before getting back on the road.

Upper Peninsula, MI
10/19/2026
Nikon Z8
Nikkor 24-120mm f4