Sunflower Field

This post is completely inspired by a weekend with weather in the 70s, only to wake up to a blanket of snow 2 days later. Oh Michigan I certainly love you, but please bring on the warm weather, I am so ready for blooming flowers and unexpected sunflower fields.

Anyways, do you want to know something that was on my bucket list? It was so see a sunflower field in person. And then we saw this one and I almost cried tears of joy.  As we were driving along having a small argument over who forgot some very necessary items on our backpacking packing list (for the record, it was my fault, but I would never admit that at the time) we spotted this field and my whole little world stopped.  This is exactly what we did: stop, turn the car around, park, take in the beauty, photograph the beauty, take in the beauty for a bit longer, continue on our way, forget that small argument ever happened.

I don't even remember where the sunflower field even was.  Somewhere between Lake Michigan Recreation Area and Detroit, but lesson learned- if you see a Michigan sunflower field stop right there and take a few moments to enjoy it.  Fingers crossed we will be spotting summertime flowers before we know it ;)

Downtown Grand Rapids

A few weeks ago we were able to spend a night in Grand Rapids.  I wish we had more time to explore the city, but the time we had made me excited to plan our next visit.  Here are a few photos from our quick evening of exploring.

Eastern Market

We made another visit to Eastern Market in Detroit this weekend.  I sure do love that place.  I have blogged about the market before here.  It was a much different experience, last time we visited was in February and the market was quiet and spacious.  The warm weather brought lots of people out and this time it was packed with vendors and customers.  It was wonderful to see so many people enjoying the great opportunity to buy Michigan grown products.  I am sure we will make many more visits to the market during the summer months.

Tulip Time in Holland

Sorry for the time away from the blog.  I have had a busy couple of weeks and have lots of Michigan adventures to share.  Keep checking and sharing I heart MI with your friends and family because regular posts are back!

Last week we were able to spend some time in Holland for the Tulip Time Festival.  This was my first visit to the festival and I was in complete amazement.  I had no idea there were so many different tulips.  They were all in full bloom and the entire city was in a burst of color.  We were able to see the parade on Thursday and share in lots of the festival festivities.  What a great event to be apart of, I plan on making this an annual trip.

Springtime

With the crazy weather yesterday I thought I would post some inspiration for spring.  We spent the day in Holland on Friday and we saw signs of spring everywhere.  I have to think that under the snow we got yesterday these flowers are still trying to show their colors!  More pictures of Holland to come this week.