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Housing construction activity up in the Township

April 4, 2010

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Babs Young reports that do-it-yourself builders are giving the area housing market a much-needed boost.  She writes: Ms. Crow here likes this lovely spring weather we are having so she can begin to build her new home. Miss Puss has been watching the activity with great interest but without much ambition. She is getting to be […]

Babs revisits the sunset

March 28, 2010

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One of my alltime favorite Babs Young photos was taken from this vantage point.  Now she’s back, working with a whole new palette.  As she says, who can resist a sunset like this on Essex Road?  And this time she caught the gleam in the barn window.

Sun rises over Torch Lake – and will again tomorrow

March 21, 2010

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I got home from work tonight and found the weekly gift from Babs Young. She writes: A beautiful Torch Lake sunrise and the Democrats are about to pass Health Care Reform tonight. Two pretty good things up here in Northern Michigan. We will have such a long way to go to make all of this […]

Freedom’s just another word for fishing

March 15, 2010

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As Ratty said to Mole, there is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.  And Babs . . .  well, Babs lets her photos do the talking. Every week photographer Babs Young captures moments in northern Michigan, and every week she sends one to Torch Lake Views just for you. […]

Last ice on Torch Lake

March 15, 2010

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Early in the week the ice on Torch Lake shattered into tinkling shards over at the Day Park.  Babs Young and Chris Szejbach were there, capturing a swirl of jade here . . .    . . . glints of blood rubies, crystals, amethysts, tumbling in the sunlight, then vanishing. At Eastport, Katherine writes, The ice wasn’t gone from the north […]

The return of Babs

March 8, 2010

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Technical Difficulties Resolved.  I am in receipt of the weekly email from Babs.  She writes:  This pretty much sums up our weather of the last week. Temps in the low 40’s, very blue skies and the snow beginning to melt. Perfect!! And perfect it is. We emerge from our winter drowse, though not without stresses […]