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The Up North approach to plein air

December 21, 2009

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Babs Young writes:  This Plein Air painter has got to be from Northern Michigan. Not many would sit out in the 20+° weather and paint with no gloves. The call to create transcends much. Especially when it’s bovine. I understand that I have already confused readers with respect to my thoughts on beef cattle once […]

Babs hearts Traverse City

December 14, 2009

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♥ ♥ ♥ All this snow hasn’t kept our Babs in.  She’s been out and about taking pictures in Traverse City.  She writes:  For those of you who frequent Traverse City, you have probably noticed this graffiti. These hearts are all around. Personally, I love them. You can read more about them in this Record-Eagle […]

Maintaining rural character

December 13, 2009

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Torch Lake Township, like much of the touristed North Country, is obsessed with maintaining Rural Character.  I am generally in favor of this, as rural areas are where the food is grown, and we all know how I feel about that.  Still, I was surprised when Babs Young told me she had seen a cow […]

Coming home along Elk Lake Road

December 7, 2009

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Babs Young was away for Thanksgiving, but she thought of you all the way home.  She needed a photo.  And there, along Elk Lake Road, she found one.  She writes: What a difference a week or two makes. We left and it was still sunny and rather warm and came home to winter. Nice white […]

Happy Thanksgiving from Babs

November 23, 2009

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Babs Young went looking for a last little dab of fall color and found this.  She writes: Most of the leaves are gone, but I managed to find these in East Jordan today. Not sure what type of tree they are from, but the color is good. I’ll be in Ohio next week, so no […]

Silky daisy spun from a milkweed pod

November 15, 2009

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Babs Young writes: I love the milkweed pods when they do this. So I’ve been stopping along the roads to take their picture. I also put some some of the Loeb farm pictures up on Flickr. You can find them here. Nice textures and colors, Babs. D’you think I could have called this “Bouquet with […]