Most houseplants are tropical plants that require the warm, somewhat humid conditions of their natural habitat. In the home, many can become tired-looking, especially over winter, when even your brightest window provides lower-than-ideal light levels. So why not send your houseplants on a ...

“Bird on the horizon, sitting on a fence, he’s singing his song for me at his own expense,” — Bob Dylan Rolling along the highway with the window down, fence posts blur and the warm wind comes whipping inside the car, it swirls around me and goes out the open window on the passenger ...

MARQUETTE — Rising temperatures and changing environmental conditions in the Great Lakes are contributing to harmful algal blooms, and new research suggests that the nearshore regions of Lake Superior could indicate climate change’s effects on the region’s ecosystem. The study, in the ...

I recall the small, dilapidated shack standing broken and falling apart there alongside the corroded railroad tracks. The beat-up structure was made of splintered wood and rusty nails, and had at one time served the railroad as a place to store things used in track maintenance. Between the ...

MARQUETTE — Every fall for years, Deborah McCullough and her husband fished salmon from Western Michigan’s Betsie River. “It’s a little river, and it was shaded, and you knew there was going to be big salmon in the deep spot over there under the shade,” she said. But all that ...

It was in the very early morning hours when I slipped outside the back door to the yard to look at the “blood moon,” a full lunar eclipse which casts the moon’s face in a rusty red tint. Just a couple steps out there, I was disappointed to see the moon shrouded in a thick white woolen ...