Big time, bright light (23 June 2007).
Sunlight highlights a flower in the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory on Detroit’s Belle Isle.
If you have not visited Belle Isle, I suggest you do so; it makes for an enjoyable day trip. Its main attractions include the conservatory, the marvelous Scott Memorial Fountain, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, a beach and water slide, a 9-hole golf course and driving range, and even a small zoo. It is a wonderful oasis from the dense urban landscape of Detroit.
And it is my hope that the Friends of Belle Isle Aquarium will someday manage to reopen the island’s aquarium. I was able to visit it before the city shuttered it due to budget problems, and I hope to be able to visit it again.
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My only time on Belle Isle was during miles 17 – 21 of the Detroit Marathon last fall. I vaguely remember seeing a fountain and some other old buildings, but I wasn’t exactly in the mindset of sightseeing at the time (more like just trying to survive running into a 30 mph wind). I would like to go back and visit under more pleasant circumstances.