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Summer 2025 Reflections
The light has changed tone, timing and feel here in Cleveland, and the trees are starting to turn orange and gold. Summer is coming to a close. It’s with great contentment that I say it was another good one. A major joy for me was my 12 year old daughter…
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A Great Lakes Mermaid & Petoskey Stones
When we took our first trip to Northern Michigan in June 2019, we stopped at the Cottage Book Shop in Glen Arbor. At that time the girls were very young, so we picked out just one picture book. It’s called Tallulah: Mermaid of the Great Lakes by Denise Brennan-Nelson. In…
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Summer Scourge: Harmful Algal Blooms
My recent posts have highlighted good Great Lakes summer stuff: beautiful places, recreation, sand, sun. However, the summer months also bring an annual scourge to the lakes in the form of harmful algal blooms (HABs). The western basin of Lake Erie near Toledo is most affected by HABs, but increasingly…
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