The other night we trotted down to the beach to experiment with the Night Portrait setting on the point’n’shoot camera. The dogs got bored before I did, but they put up with me. There was a nice sunset of the delicate variety, as opposed to the scarlet and purple drama that can flare across the […]
Sunday was a day devoted to playfulness. It went even better than I had any right to expect. Louan Lechler called about this and that, and the next thing you know we were haring about the countryside exploring. If you are going to spend an entire afternoon playing, it is just as well to begin with […]
The weather forecasters are unanimous. This weekend–Mothers Day!–we are to be visited by rain turning to sleet turning to s#%@. Mama Nature will have her little joke. This raises the troubling question, what of Joanne and Tom, who are on their way here on their bicycles? Will they wish they had packed YakTrax? Not to worry. […]
Look deeply enough into the personal lives of other life forms and you’re likely to come away amazed, bitten, or both. I’ve been captivated—or who knows, maybe the word I want is captured—by the aliens of Tiny World, otherwise known as my accidental liverwort garden. It had been awhile since my last visit to the liverworts, […]
Come along with us for a little stroll. We’re convalescing and wish to be peaceful. I forget what we were doing in Elk Rapids, which is a little worrying, but we stopped off at the Birch Lake rest area on our way home and made good use of the facilities. We don’t usually spend a […]
Babs Young sent me an email. Her friends Joanne Robben and Tom Sellmer spend every summer at their cottage on Torch Lake. This year they’re going green. They’ll make the trip up from Georgia on their bicycles. Meet Joanne and Tom. This is the 1600-mile trip they’ve just begun. They expect to arrive at Torch Lake between […]
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