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Blue Primroses have come up!

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It's tuilp time!!!

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Look at this cool rock I found!

Dug this out of the ground in our backyard while making a hole for a post. It was 24 inches down in a layer of brown clay in a vein of rocks. It appears to be quartz and maybe fossilized coral or perhaps a bone due to its organic shape. Measures approximately 3 X 4 inches. Michigan was an ancient sea 350 million years ago. I have found fossilized branching and horn coral in the same location. It is fascinating what one can find in your own backyard! ~ Matteo

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Pride Pillows! We sold out at last Pride so get to our booths early this year, or always available online at Metz & Matteo.

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The ornamental Pear and Redbud trees are on full bloom! Spring is in the air, aachoo 🤧

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Decorate your pad with these high resolution images of the interior and exterior of a Scallop Shell. Both are available with either a Black or Silver background. Though scallops are one of the fastest moving bivalves in the ocean, you will not have to work hard to capture these in your hands! Shop the entire Scallop Collection!

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More spring flowers! Never has the periwinkle (vinca minor) bloomed so much for us as it has this year. ~ Matteo

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I leave soon! My home away from home for the days I will be camping. Petrified Forest National Park is my first camp stop. ~ Matteo

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Found a Petoskey Stone in our yard yesterday! Not a usual place for such a find but I'll take it. Petoskey Stones are fossils of six-sided rugose coral. They are formed by glaciers picking them up from the bedrock and grinding them smooth. Later they were deposited along mostly the northwestern area of Michigan's lower peninsula. ~ Matteo

Shop for Petoskey Stone products and other Nature Morte items at Metz & Matteo!

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SPRING!!!

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Some of the last images I took of North Park in San Diego, California, before moving back to Michigan. Twenty years in the making, they are regular 8mm film stills from early 2004. The film was digitized, and this year I created digital negatives @kirknewmanartschool @kalamazooinstituteofarts photography department with the help of @m_b_whalen. Printed on my all-time favorite David W. Lewis gelatin silver paper. I purchased the frames years ago in San Diego, and now I've found a purpose for them. Every day I will now look at them hanging on my wall. ~ Matteo

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Love Your Neighbor who doesn't: Look like you, Think like you, Love like you, Speak like you, Pray like you, Vote like you. Love Your Neighbor, No exceptions.

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I'm so grateful that my parents took us on family vacations every summer growing up. We usually went back to south Jersey to visit family but we did take an occasional excursion elsewhere. I loved being copilot, road Atlas in hand, to help guide my father, not that he didn't already know the way. Though GPS navigation can be very convenient, there is nothing like the feel and smell of a paper map! Just picking it up triggers a flood of memories. ~ Matteo

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It came and went and the world didn't burst into flames! No totality here in Michigan and no diamond ring 😢but amazing to see nonetheless. ~ Matteo

NOTE: Even though these are digital images taken with my mobile phone camera, they still involved film. I used an old piece of fully exposed 35mm film tapped over the camera lenses to keep the sensors from being damaged!

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Just received Pride Flags and Stickers to sell at our booth this year! They will only be available for purchase in person at our booth during events. Visit our homepage to see dates and times. We just started adding Pride events, so check back often. Help support a small LGBTQIA+ business and ally. Shop our entire Pride Collection!

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March 31 is Transgender Day of Visibility! We celebrate and acknowledge the struggles and progress of the transgender, genderqueer and non-binary community to be accepted and recognized. Help support a small LGBTQIA+ business and ally. Shop our entire Pride Collection!

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"Hope is NOT a four letter word!" Shop the Collection!