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Christmas at the Ellsworth Farmers Exchange, by Babs Young

December 15, 2008

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I love all the photos Babs sends us, but this may be my favorite.  Something about it reminds me of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks—except that here there’s a door.  A way in, and a way out.  What Babs wrote is this:  You never know where you will find a little Christmas cheer. Here we are at Ellsworth Farmers Exchange […]

Babs is back

December 8, 2008

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Babs Young, who went over the river and through the woods to Ohio for Thanksgiving, safely negotiated the blizzardy roads home to send us our weekly photo. She writes, What a difference a month makes. On November 9 I sent the orchard with golden leaves. On December 7 it is a different story. Compare this snowy […]

Happy Thanksgiving from Babs

November 24, 2008

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Babs Young writes, Here we are once again on Essex Road and then there is that “lake effect” too. It’s not winter yet on the calendar, but it sure looks like it is.  Happy Thanksgiving to all. Every week photographer Babs Young captures moments in northern Michigan, and every week she sends one to Torch […]

Lake effect

November 16, 2008

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All day today the Weather Widget over in the right column has been posting an Advisory! of a winter storm coming our way, bearing–surprise surprise–lake effect snow.  A lake effect snow warning remains in effect until 11 am EST Monday . . . .  Overnight snow accumulations within the warned area are expected to range […]

Transition time: Don’t tell the cherry trees fall is over

November 9, 2008

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This was the day that Indian Summer closed up the cottage and went to Florida.  This afternoon the Cabin Fever Club carpooled over to Suttons Bay in a light drizzle to see a movie.  (We’d heard that Tell No One, this weekend’s selection in the Beyond the Bay film series, was smart, suspenseful and French, and it […]

Babs raises a toast to President Obama

November 5, 2008

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Babs Young went to Suttons Bay on a quest for Obama Sparkling Wine, produced by vintner Larry Mawby, and came back with a case of the bubbly in time to toast the election results.