This from Babs Young in the morning’s email: What better place to enjoy a Torch Lake sunset than the Dockside . . . I have never been to the Dockside at sunset. Does that not look like fun? It looks like fun. It is a lot of fun in the daytime, too, but clearly I need […]
Babs writes: Every 4th of July there is a parade in Central Lake and the Blue Heaven Gang is usually one of the attractions. This year was no exception. Two trucks, four golf carts and one Ranger carried somewhere over 40 of us right down Main Street. That’s an Up North 4th of July for […]
You knew she’d be there . . . and she was. This just in from Babs Young: Saturday was the 4th edition of Art Rapids!, a great one-day Art Fair in Elk Rapids, always the last Saturday in June. This is Bill Perkins, twig furniture maker extraordinaire. You can find his work at http://www.hoffmansweb.com/twig/. Every […]
You may recall that students over in Ellsworth designed a program they dubbed the Artism of Betty Beeby. I like it. Artism sounds like something a person could get up to in the course of ordinary life, sitting right next to a person who’s making Art. Whenever artists get up to something in Antrim County […]
This just in from Babs Young: Move over Monet, well not quite, but they are water lilies and I rather like the colors. I don’t think Monet need worry. Babs, I think Monet would invite you to visit his garden in Giverny and show you the light on his lily pond. He’d tell you to go […]
So just now I open my email and there’s a letter from Babs. This is not a surprise. There’s a letter from Babs every Sunday. However, this particular email is full of more questions than answers, more je ne sais quois than true, dat. So I copy it to you without interpretive additions. Make of it […]
July 13, 2009
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