Babs outdid herself with the weekly Michigan Pic. If you click it for a fullsize view I believe you will be able to count the feathers. Looks like a real harbinger of spring to me. So then I got to thinking about what a satisfactory weekend it had been, braided with friends and small adventures, […]
Time for the weekly Michigan Picture from Babs – and she is bored with snow. Enough winter pictures, she writes. This is Hecate waiting to watch the Oscars. I expect Hecate was somewhat disdainful of most of the hoopla. She probably approved of Ang Lee’s Best Director award for Life of Pi–although it would be […]
During my protracted absence from the blogosphere, Babs Young soldiered on, documenting the winter of 2013 so that generations hence may be suitably awed by what we put up with back in the Olden Times. This of course assumes that these posts will survive that long in a form that can be read by future […]
Do you remember Heckle and Jeckle? They were, for those of you too young to remember such things, Terrytoons characters featured in movie and TV cartoons and comic books from the 1940s up until 1980 or so. I guess they were supposed to be magpies. I always thought they were crows, which is why I […]
I confess that winters in northern Michigan tend to be mostly black and white and lovely shades of grey. We make up for it by wearing a lot of red and lighting fires in the woodstove. On sunny days, we rock out. I had it in mind to show you several examples, but I neglected […]
I know, I know – in my absence you have been starving for Babs Young’s images. Here are the last three from 2012 – more to come. I especially loved this one, taken just before the December storm. Babs wrote: The water level in Lake Michigan is very low, much to the dismay of many. […]
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