Category: Friday Favorite Feature

Friday Favorite Feature 16 — holiday exhibits at Meijer Garden

If you count today, there are 17 days until Christmas.  But Christmas is not the only holiday that is celebrated at this time of year.  Nov 28 was the day we met up at Meijer Gardens.  Last week’s Friday Favorite Feature was the garden train.  The halls were lined with Christmas trees and decorated with…

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Friday Favorite Feature 15 — Meijer Gardens Seasonal Indoor Railway Garden

railway garden The Railway Garden creates a winter wonderland during the University of Michigan Health-West: Christmas & Holiday Traditions exhibition. Trains weave their way around holiday-themed horticulture and dozens of West Michigan and Sister City miniature landmarks—made of natural materials—within the Grace Jarecki Seasonal Display Greenhouse. — from the website On Tuesday I was invited…

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Friday Favorite Feature 12 — Plea for Peace

Let grace blank the slatecradle tears and salve each acheto bless us forwardwe must leave curses in dustcultivate peace’s garden I listened to US Senator Bernie Sanders last night and please, take a few minutes out of your day to listen to what Bernie has to say.  I grabbed Sting’s album, “Nothing Like the Sun”…

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Friday Favorite Feature 11 — Tree Hugger

Last weekend older son and I drove over to Grand Rapids and met up with younger son, his wife, and my grandbaby at Blandford Nature Center to walk the trails and to visit the farm part of the property to see the goats and chickens and to check out the large community garden the place…

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Friday Favorite Feature 10 — (TV series) Poker Face (2023)

image link The first time I saw Natasha Lyonne was in a few episodes of, “Orange is the New Black” back when it first started, in 2013. Can’t remember whether I finished watching S1 or not but did not watch beyond it for sure. From what I remember of the series about women in prison…

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Friday Favorite Feature 9 — Daddy’z Breakdown

Daddy’z Breakdown jpg from their inactive facebook page The first/only time I heard Daddy’z Breakdown was in 2010, at a little bar in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where we had gone to see another band (Dutch Henry) in the lineup. They had just released their eponymous debut (and only, to date) album and were selling them…

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