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Early spring on Grand Traverse Bay
Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and I request the favor of your company on a short walk along the shores of Grand Traverse Bay. It will be so warm that you will not even need a jacket, but I recommend you bring one so you will have extra pockets to hold Petoskey stone finds, or an excellent treat or two.
The trees have their say
March 11, 2012
I suppose it’s possible to take trees for granted, especially when you have whole forests of them. Recently, though, the trees have been in the very forefront of our minds. Even—if we have been unlucky—in the very forefront of our living rooms, twigs, branches and squirrels. We sat up and took notice. Some of them […]
Welcome to Jotunheim
March 6, 2012
Mama Nature has her little ways. Last weekend she showed northern Michigan who’s boss. In fact, thousands of homes in Antrim County are still cold and dark. It’s beautiful here in the winter, and terrible, and fierce, and we are powerless, whether we have electricity or not. But we hang in there, haul each other […]
Babs heads to the pool
February 26, 2012
Babs Young writes: It’s not been a great winter for snow, but Lake Michigan is spectacular with its snow mountains and water pools here and there. It’s hard not to take a nice photograph. I confess I am a grumpy bear myself – it was a beautiful day and I spent all of it indoors […]
Tending the livestock
February 22, 2012
Miss Sadie and the Cowboy kept me plenty busy today and we all feel better for it. Sometimes I lose track of the important things. They always remind me. When you’re outdoors with animals, even days that look like this one feel . . . exhilarating. Something close to that anyway. Close enough to count […]
Fluffy snow followed by shower of peas
February 19, 2012
It's been a quiet weekend at the Writing Studio and Bait Shop.
Books in Northport
- I don't have much to say.
- It's all in here: the sublime, silly, dangerous, petty, too cute for words, and a shed tear.
- From the Tenth to the Twelfth
- Goodbye, November. Hello, Winter!
- Gratitude and Death
- Deer Season, Among Books
- Time’s Wingèd Chariot
- Looking and Looking and Looking!
- Color/Light and Home in Autumn
- Turn, Turn, Turn
Carsten in Denmark
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Torch Lake Views 
March 18, 2012
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