Michigan Blue Magazine

The story behind the National Writers Series in northern Michigan would make a great book.

People have wondered for centuries what the Earth looks like from the air above. Before modern aviation, people attempted to take aerial photographs by sending cameras aloft by balloon, kite and even strapped to pigeons.

Paddling beneath the towering sandstone cliffs of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore got a little easier last summer once the new 64-foot Kayak Express hit the water.

Ryan White remembers exactly how he became a fishing guide.

If the porch of Island House Hotel could give up its secrets, it would surely spill details of the century-old soirees and vacation stays of early Mackinac Island settlers, Chicago socialites, members of the Moral Re-Armament and 21st-century guests.

Like the weight of a heavy coat being shed, the passing of winter brings a smile to most people’s faces and a certain lightness of being.

William Schopf is a storyteller, though not in the traditional sense of taking pen to paper or tapping away on a keyboard to craft novels, short stories or screenplays (though he majored in English literature at Princeton University).

The musical chiming of Belle Isle’s stately Nancy Brown Peace Carillon will take on an even more beautiful air once its 85-foot tower is surrounded by a new world-class outdoor garden.

If you’d like to spice up your outdoor spaces, containers add color and character to the backyard and beyond.

Morels usually start popping in early April around here, but the big white ones don’t show up until about the first of May.