Time for the weekly Michigan Picture from Babs – and she is bored with snow. Enough winter pictures, she writes. This is Hecate waiting to watch the Oscars.
I expect Hecate was somewhat disdainful of most of the hoopla. She probably approved of Ang Lee’s Best Director award for Life of Pi–although it would be just like her to credit the movie’s excellence to the tiger.
Miss Sadie and the Cowboy do not keep up with movies much. They prefer to be outdoors unless it’s suppertime. They are fond of storybooks, though, and the recent spate of snow and ice has given us lots of time to read. Recommendations from the Writing Studio and Bait Shop: Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior and Louise Erdrich’s Round House.
Now we’re starting on Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier’s End, by Scott W. Berg. I can tell already that it will be both very good and very difficult to read.
Torch Lake Views 
Martha J
February 25, 2013
Love the picture of Hecate and also the book recommendations! I am always looking for good books and my greatest fear (well, maybe not GREATEST) is to run out of good books to read. I can recommend a good one myself, especially for the photography lovers. It is The Inventor and the Tycoon by Robert Ball. This is the nonfiction story of the beginnings of photography and the really interesting between the money man (Stanford) and the creative man (Muybridge) along with murder and lots of other interesting stories. Another recommendation is The Cellist of Sarajevo – a novel about the siege of that city – very moving. As for the weather, we got sick of winter too and headed to Florida for a short break and arrived just in time for fog, rain and red tide so you are not in bad shape up there!
Gerry
February 25, 2013
Red tide! Gack! I’ll stick with ice.
Sybil
February 25, 2013
Cats and dogs can be pretty smart.
Gerry
February 25, 2013
I am certain Hecate is very smart, and Miss Sadie is a wise terrier indeed. The Cowboy? Dunno. (Although on the evidence he’s clearly smarter than I am. Look who does all the chores.)
tootlepedal
February 25, 2013
I hope the snow goes soon.
Gerry
February 25, 2013
I’m of two minds. We need the nice blanket on the orchards. Besides, fluffy snow sparkling on white pines in the moonlight is very attractive. On the other hand . . . snow has a bad habit of overstaying its welcome.
P.j. grath
February 26, 2013
It’s Tuesday morning, and the sun is streaming in from the east. Supposed to be up to 40 today. Hecate will be warm in the window, but Miss Sadie and the Cowboy may get muddy if too much snow melts. I dropped my good leather gloves on muddy asphalt yesterday and would much rather have dropped them in clean snow. As for books, I have been on such a reading jag that this morning I’m just dipping around here and there in my old book of Chinese philosophy, not ready to tackle anything new yet from the beginning.
Gerry
February 26, 2013
It’s Tuesday almost lunchtime and I just got myself all set up at the Elk Rapids Library for a bit of work. There is sunshine on the snowy hill, and lots of slushy ice here and there. The Duo are at home dreaming of a walk. They have been very patient lately. I believe I will dip into some blogs I haven’t been able to visit much lately. It takes so little to make us happy in February . . .
Dawn
February 26, 2013
It is Tuesday night and we are in the middle of the latest blizzard. No sunshine here today. But we have hope…for at the end of the week it is MARCH! Surely then spring is right around the corner. Or not. We’ll see.
Fee
February 28, 2013
I looked at our little puss this morning, curled up on a fluffy couch pillow as I headed out into the frozen landscape on the way to work, and thought, “who’s the daft one?”. I have a feeling it might be the two-legged residents!
Scott Thomas Photography
March 1, 2013
Disney won for their animated movie and who doesn’t like James Bond, eh? Well, I like’em and give the latest one two thumbs up. Babs better be ready for more snow…don’t think we’ll get the weather we had last March this year.
Martha
March 1, 2013
I like your comment about how little it takes to make us happy in February. I think that’s true up here. Or “up here”. And now it’s March. What do we demand of March…
isathreadsoflife
March 30, 2013
Hecate is a very photogenic cat. Thank you for your recommendations: Kingsolver and Erdrich are two of my favourite writers. I will write those titles on my list. I have gotten lost in Murakami’s “1Q84” for quite a while. Fascinating read.