Red Bridge on Belle Isle

Detroit Ren Center

Belle Isle Conservatory

Belle Isle Conservatory. This is a wonderful place to visit if you like orchids, flowers, cacti, etc. The building itself is lovely.

Orchid at the Belle Isle Conservatory

Orchid at the Belle Isle Conservatory. Their orchid collection is splendid! Belle Isle is an Island Park in Detroit.

Phoenix

A Phoenix from a monument at Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit. Ironically, it is a large ornate monument for a woman who died and was buried overseas.

Details of Windows and Doors at Elmwood Cemtery Chapel

Details of Windows and Doors at Elmwood Cemtery Chapel, phots by Mary Stebbins Taitt

Chapel, Elmwood Cemetery

Chapel, Elmwood Cemetery, photos by Mary Stebbins Taitt. This is a lovely chapel with leaded class windows. Click images to see larger and examine detail.

Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit

This is a wonderful place for a walk, a picnic, or a genealogy search. Click photos to view larger and see details or read sign.

Dark Angel, Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, MI

Dark Angel, Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, MI, by Mary Stebbins Taitt.

The dark stains are a result of burning coal. Much of the statuary and many of the old buildings in Detroit are stained like this.

Detroit Federal Building Scupture

Detroit Renaisance Center

Detroit Renaissance Center, a study in symmetry. Photo by Mary Stebbins Taitt (all photo in this blog by me unless otherwise noted.)

Eastern Market

Marie posted market shots on her Montpellier Cityblog, so here are some from Eastern Market, a huge farmer's market near downtown Detroit. They sell fruits and vegetables, flowers, honey, bread and so on. It's usually bustling, but I was there at the end of the day and it was rainy and windy and people were leaving early.

White Sun Chop Suey

This is the the sign on the side of the abandoned building on Jefferson that is decorated with Pewabic Pottery. There are many abandoned buildings in Detroit.

More Pewabic Pottery

This abandoned building is located on Jefferson in Detroit (not far from Pewabic Pottery). Like many buildings in Detroit, from the simple to the ornate, it is decorated with Pewabic Pottery tiles.

Pewabic Pottery

Detroit is famous for Pewabic Pottery. They make tiles and vases that are used in buildings everywhere in Detroit. Pewabic Pottery is located on Jefferson not far from Belle Isle.

Abandoned Laundry

There are lots of abandoned builting in Detroit. I love this one. If I were rich, I'd like to buy it and restore it and use it as a studio, but I am not rich.

Open Space

Detroit has lots of open space becase of the race riots in 1967. There were a lot of fires that burned vast portions of the city, and they were never rebuilt. This is near the center of the city, not far from downtown.

Tim Burke's House

Tim Burke is an artist who lives on Heidelberg Street in Detroit. He lives a very artsy life style. We met him today. I love his work. He makes fabulous tables and chairs out of granit and steel, as well as more whimsical items. I expect to revisit him and his work as well as many other aspects of Detroit in my daily Detroit photoblog. I am new to Detroit, so hopefully we'll be making discoveries together.

I left the photo big so you can click and scroll to see more of the details.