Tag Archives: Impromptu Exploration

Detroit, Michigan

This week has me heading East to Detroit, Michigan. The morning was bitterly cold, with temperatures in the single digits. The kind of morning where each breath inward burns your lungs. Luckily the weather turned more favorably as I headed East. Detroit is one of my favorite cities to visit. Nowhere else personifies the gritContinueContinue reading “Detroit, Michigan”

Oak Hill Cemetery

Evansville, Indiana extended: At Oak Hill Cemetery among the hundreds of granite and marble monuments, lies the resting place of a family much different than many of their peers, the Harrison’s. Elizabeth Harrison was said to be a queen to a tribe of Romany gypsies that had emigrated to the United States from England sometimeContinueContinue reading “Oak Hill Cemetery”

Evansville, Indiana

This week brought me to the southern tip of Indiana. In a logistically awkward way, my destination would keep me on mainly country highways and off of the monotonous concrete expressways that lace the United States together. Once out of the city and its sprawling outskirts, I was met with the expansive spaces synonymous withContinueContinue reading “Evansville, Indiana”

Latitude 45° North

As I returned from the snowy Upper Peninsula of Michigan last week, I pulled off the highway after seeing an old rusty sign for a geographical marker. To my surprise, the marker delineated the theoretical halfway point between the Equator and the North Pole. Finding this small oxidized plaque set in stone off the shoulderContinueContinue reading “Latitude 45° North”

Marquette & Iron Mountain, Michigan

I’m way UP north in Marquette and Iron Mountain, Michigan for the week. The calm frigid waters of Lake Superior and dense forests were beautiful; I was lucky enough to see them for a few days before getting pummelled with snow. The evergreen trees walled in the highway as I drove southward back into WisconsinContinueContinue reading “Marquette & Iron Mountain, Michigan”

Sometimes I paint. 

I used to draw quite a bit as a kid, but had never painted outside of watercolors (which never seemed to agree with me). So after graduation, I decided to challenge myself to try something new and give painting a shot. These were all done with oil paint on canvas. Looking forward to doing someContinueContinue reading “Sometimes I paint. “

Minneapolis, Minnesota

I spent a couple weeks in Minneapolis and St. Paul, this past summer and really loved my time there. Between seeing the iconic home of F. Scott Fitzgerald where he began writing “This Side of Paradise” to the gorgeous Minneapolis riverfront park; I was blown away by the beauty of the twin cities. Minneapolis RiverfrontContinueContinue reading “Minneapolis, Minnesota”