Babs Young’s neighbors close up their houses and go away just when things are getting interesting. They’d really rather be here with us, watching the lake freeze over, monitoring the progress of Ryan and Andrea Romeyn’s new barn, tracing the patterns ice crystals form on the windows as the LP tank empties. Babs is a kind person, and for years she has emailed a new photo each week to a growing roster of admirers. At right is her first photo-of-the-week for 2008, the new barn going up on M-88. You can see archives for earlier years at Mich Pic 3 photo collection, and now she’s given me permission to publish her work in Torch Lake Views.
This week’s photo is below. Babs wrote: This one is a little more abstract than I normally send. But the lines in the ice on Torch Lake are just too lovely not to photograph. The lake seems to be completely frozen over and there were ice boats down from Sonny’s yesterday. It’s warm today (37º) and I didn’t see any, but colder temps are due so they may be out again. They are great to photograph.
Torch Lake Views 
uphilldowndale
March 3, 2008
Hope it doesn’t get to windy before that barn is weather proof!
Gerry Sell
March 3, 2008
Hello Mrs. UHDD! (For those of you who may not know, she writes from the north of England, a place with some similarities to our own Torch Lake Township, and some differences as well. Her photos are magnificent – I may have to add another section called “Neighbors Around the Pond” just so people will go look, but if you click on the “uphilldowndale” in the previous comment you will go straight to her site. You won’t be sorry!) The Romeyns’ barn is fully enclosed at this point, and will be a handsome structure indeed by summer.
Sarah
March 9, 2008
We are one of the families on Torch Lake that close up our cottage every Sept. and never get to see the beauty of Torch the rest of the year. I’m so glad Babs sends us such beautiful pictures.
Gerry Sell
March 9, 2008
Thanks for checking in, Sarah! I’m glad Babs allows me to publish her photos each week. For at least one day, all I have to write is “Ahhh . . .”