Tonight while I was out hobbling in the wake of the Disreputable Duo, Babs was busy in her magical laboratory. On my return from the wild darkness of Michigan Trail, I found her weekly email. She wrote: Since it is Valentine’s Day, I will call this Foxy Lady. I’m not much of a wild life […]
Do you remember when Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and I joined Loreen Niewenhuis for part of her trek around Lake Michigan? She finished the journey last September and is now at work on her book. Meanwhile, she’s stitched together photos from her adventure into a series of videos. We are featured players in the one […]
Nancy and Glenn live over in Chandler Township, Charlevoix County–a community that makes Torch Lake Township look positively urban. Today they had a chili and snowshoe/cross-country party. Had a good day for it, too. They served venison chili and vegetarian chili and cookies and brownies and blueberry cake. People brought side dishes and more desserts. There was fine sock-footed conversation […]
This is Bruce Laidlaw’s response to Scott Thomas’s White Challenge. There are no monsters in our summer lakes. But in the winter . . . all I can say is the bobcat better watch his step.
Last night, while I was digging for some background to add to Babs Young’s regular Sunday night photo, she sent another one. This is a bonus, a true embarrassment of riches, and on top of it, I loved the photo. So here it is. Babs wrote: When we came home Friday night there was a […]
I ran into Shanna Branding over at the Township EMS offices. She wanted to know what on earth I was doing wandering along the shoulder of US-31 picking up big sticks. I wondered myself. Then the penny dropped. She had seen me taking pictures for Torch Lake Views and I was, uncharacteristically, lugging a tripod. […]
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