Members of the Glen Lake Garden Club took advantage of a recent sunny day to re-decorate the flower barrels in Glen Arbor for the fall. The all-volunteer organization has served the area with conservation and community beautification projects for 40 years. From left: Chris Nettleton, Glen Arbor beautification committee co-chair Maureen Doran, Lorainne Kuk, Nancy Batterson, and Sharon Oriel. Not pictured: garden club president Linda Young.
On Monday, Aug. 22, at 8 p.m., Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will host a free InstaMeet event to celebrate the National Park Service Centennial. An InstaMeet is an interactive, in-park event, allowing visitors to meet up, take photos, and get to know each other. Once the visitors meet, they will accompany a park ranger on a nature hike.
This photo essay looks back at the devastation caused by the storm on Aug. 2, 2015, that ravaged Glen Arbor and the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and where we are today.
What happens to the urge to make art about the landscape when the landscape changes dramatically? When the natural world brings about a storm that uproots old trees and rearranges them into insurmountable tangles? Or, paints the sky in eerie hues of green and black? Or, throws a spanner into the picture-worthy perfection depicted on so many canvases?
Painting by Hank Feeley It has been said that to survive a winter in Northern Michigan you need to have balls of ice.
Sun co-editor Mike Buhler took these photos of the destruction to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and Glen Arbor area following the Aug. 2 megastorm.
One-year-old Caleb Byrd, from Hartland, Mich., enjoys an apple on the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail. The Byrd family parked at the Dune Climb, biked to Glen Arbor and lunched at the Good Harbor Grill. They had no trouble finding parking in Glen Arbor, even on July 1. Photo by Bridget Byrd
Leelanau’s ice caves are back. They’re not as gigantic or awe-inspiring as the 2014 ice caves that formed near Gill’s Pier between Leland and Northport, but they have nonetheless garnered the attention of nationwide media. Glen Arbor resident Eric LaPaugh took this video on Feb. 16 of ice caves that had formed in Sleeping Bear Bay, just outside Glen Arbor. The lucky find has attracted free publicity for his company Leelanau Adventures, which offers guided tours of lesser known spots in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Despite frigid temperatures that approached 0 degrees (Fahrenheit) Glen Arbor didn’t cancel its 15th annual Winterfest celebration, on Saturday, Feb. 14.. The perch fishing contest, facilitated by the Sportsman Shop, and the chili cook off next-door at Boone Dock’s drew the heartiest of souls. Don Miller took the following photos of the event.
On a mid-August day at Empire beach, tourist Christian Lubbers battled the sand, and the birds.