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Browsing All Posts filed under »Adventures outdoors«
We fish, therefore we are
Soon enough I will be grousing about s*** and fuel bills. But just for now . . . let's go fishing.
Glory be
October 5, 2012
Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and I had pressing business in Charlevoix today. Nevertheless, we made a detour along the ribbon road to the top of the second ridge, parked the car next to the centennial barn, and fled into the afternoon.
Never too many apples
October 1, 2012
I've been holding out on you. I know you've been worried, what with the failure of the cherry crop—and the peaches and the apricots and the hay and the honey—that we'd be wasting away Around Here.
Next up, flying monkeys?
September 23, 2012
Babs is intrepid. She has been out and about in these perilous times. She writes: We have had very strange weather up here this week. Lots of Rainbows, rain, hail, and wonderful clouds. The sun is shining one minute and it’s raining the next. You gotta love Michigan. Well . . . I do love […]
Babs and friends in Bellaire
September 10, 2012
Photographers Babs Young and Dana Vannoy led a group of intrepid amateurs on a morning adventure on Wednesday. Babs writes: I had an opportunity to photograph in Bellaire last week and took this photo of a bed and breakfast called the Grand Victorian. What a wonderful example of Victorian architecture. This home was built by […]
Babs and the Bear
July 15, 2012
Babs Young has been playing in the big sandpile on the big lake. She writes: This was taken in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore south of Empire. What a treasure we have so close to us. We are spoiled for treasures. Come see for yourself.
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 
October 6, 2012
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