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The previous owners of our home planted loads of perennials, so we have lovely things blooming in the yard from February — yep, the crocuses start pushing up through snow — to October.  Our yard is no showpiece, but we definitely have some nice flowers, especially these roses. Plymouth is loaded with great gardeners; people [...]

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A Plymouth dining mainstay was razed several days ago.  The Big Boy restaurant on Ann Arbor Road, just west of Sheldon Road, was closed and demolished to make room for expansion of the neighboring Kroger supermarket.  All that remains on the lot is Big Boy himself.  He stands proudly over the demolition site, holding his [...]

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Spring is both officially and unofficially here in Plymouth Our mild winter, if it could be called winter, made way for early blooming of flowers and green grass. Tis lovely.

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This is a great — but sad, horribly tragic — article about some dear friends of ours who live in this community.  We attend church with them in Plymouth and have grown to know them and their children very well.  I love them very much but, regrettably, I’ve not had done as much as I [...]

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Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church and Hellenic Cultural Center, Livonia, Michigan.

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The Michigan Film Office in Lansing has stopped accepting tax incentive applications. Apparently, incentives are, indeed, going to be capped at $25 Million. http://www.detnews.com/article/20110930/BIZ/109300452/Film-office-stops-taking-incentive-applications Major Hollywood productions began drying up right around the time that Governor Snyder announced his desire to restructure, including drastically reducing, the film tax credit. My guess is that it will [...]

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Spring has finally arrived in southeastern Michigan.  Trees and flowers are blooming, grass is turning green and growing. I was struck by the beauty of these blooming hyacinths in my yard and wanted to share them.  I have this ambitious idea that I will post photos of things blooming here in town, but I know [...]

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The Fairground Park neighborhood — I’m not sure what the actual name of our neighborhood is — will hold its block party this evening. It should be tons of fun!

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This website has a bunch of great photos of the stars of Scream 4 as they shoot — or between takes — in Kellogg Park. http://scream-trilogy.net/2010/07/photos-the-fountain-society/

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I can’t imagine I was the only person who noticed that the color coating on the compass at the intersection of Main Street and Ann Arbor Trail was peeling. Less than a month old, the surface was worn and looking bad. I took photos and considered posting them, but never quite got around to it. [...]

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