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Tradition!

December 16, 2012

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Babs Young was over at the Elk Rapids Area Historical Museum taking pictures of the Treasures from the Toy Chest exhibit when a class of third-graders filed in.  As docent Ross Graham launched into the stories of the toys and games displayed all around them, the kids whipped out their iPads and began recording his presentation.  […]

Resurfacing

December 3, 2012

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Well, that was a nice long rest. Even Babs has been off thinking of other things.

Happy Thanksgiving

November 19, 2012

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Everybody’s coming or going this week.  There is a very good possibility of excellent treats.  Whether you will be Around Here or Away, going off over the river and through the woods or welcoming the relatives to your house, we wish you a fine, peaceful holiday. Babs Young writes:  This time of day is probably […]

From out of the west

November 11, 2012

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If we want to know what’s coming at us Around Here, we head down to the shore of Grand Traverse Bay and look.  Our weather almost always comes at us out of the west, swooping in across Lake Michigan, dancing over the ridge of the Leelanau Peninsula . . . and then it’s here.  Babs Young went […]

Oh the humiliation

November 4, 2012

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Not only did I fail to tell you all about Polish dinner at the Hacienda and getting my first deer but I have been scooped yet again.  Intolerable.  I really must do better.  In the meantime I must eat humble pie.  The Michigan Picture of the Week is a splendid autumn sunset taken from my favorite bluff […]

Good to the last drop

October 28, 2012

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The rich autumn colors have pretty much faded, except in the orchards.  Naturally that was where Babs headed for this week’s Michigan Picture.  (The maples in the background are just showing off.) Tomorrow I will show you some other signs of the season. Not to worry – at least so far all our fluffy white […]