It’s warmed up a little, and the ice is melting on Grand Traverse Bay. Babs Young took a walk along the shoreline in Elk Rapids and captured this glowing sunset over Old Mission Peninsula.
Babs has about had it with winter. Today’s email: Think spring!! We need all the help we can get. As you can see Torch Lake is still very frozen.
Babs Young says, “Finding signs of spring is difficult around here. We had snow most of the day and Torch is still completely frozen. I found these crocus peeking through the snow.” Poor little things, I feel like knitting them a blankie. Spring flowers are tougher than we imagine, though. This sort of thing happens […]
Ooh, that Babs – she’s got spring fever bad, that one. She’s been playing with the software, and POW! – all of a sudden it’s bright out there. Look at these birches. Holy Wah. And that’s not all . . . . . . Babs got bears! Or wolves. And cubs. And howling, for sure. This […]
Babs Young calls this “the beginnings of a killer sunset across the north end of Torch Lake.” I call it Mother Nature at her most seductive. Bet she has spring fever, too, the hussy.
Babs Young’s neighbors close up their houses and go away just when things are getting interesting. They’d really rather be here with us, watching the lake freeze over, monitoring the progress of Ryan and Andrea Romeyn’s new barn, tracing the patterns ice crystals form on the windows as the LP tank empties. Babs is a kind […]
April 6, 2008
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