Evening Barn

Sometimes the spring sun is at the right angle each evening for the bandaged barn to really look nice. Click on the pic below to see a full-sized photo taken yesterday, May 17, 2008.

The trees almost make this look like a fall photo, but what you see is actually the evening “golden hour” sun on [...]

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Work Day Saturday, May 10, 2008: Fallen Tree Cleared

The combined efforts of the Friends of Highland Recreation Area volunteers and the DNR resulted in removal of a giant fallen tree off of the back fence yesterday. Great job everyone!

Above: Tree and Fence Before

Above: After!

Above: FOHRA volunteers working together with the DNR to complete the job.

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OUR Recreation Area

I’ve never considered myself a “tree hugger”… just a nature lover, an outdoors person, someone who appreciates the wilder areas that are left on our planet. And ya know what makes me mad? It makes me angry when I find trash strewn along a lakeshore that was obviously deliberately left by someone, maybe even [...]

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Spring Cleaning Begins!

A gang of FOHR members started some exterior debris pick-up around the barn on Sunday April 27th. Some interior work was continued also.

This weekends’ activities felt like the first gathering of the Spring/Summer as the weather and temperatures were nice for working outside.

We used the “treasure” display to create an info. table for passers-by. The [...]

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Milford Earth Day Display

In the spirit of Earth Day and with our continued need to “get the word out” about the Friends of Highland Recreation, we attended the 2008 Earth Day festival in the park in Milford, Michigan on April 20th.

Mother Nature handed out free white pine sapplings, and gave everyone a fairly nice day for an outdoor [...]

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