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The Writing Studio and Bait Shop in Winter

January 26, 2008

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I know snowbirds like to be reassured that it is a good idea to spend January (and February, and March) in Florida or other parts warmer.  Here, depending on personal taste, is evidence that they were right to flee before the (shiver) Snow arrived – or evidence that they are missing extraordinary beauty . . […]

Happy Australia Day

January 25, 2008

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The nice thing about the internet is that you can connect in happy ways with people from anywhere – as we did with Australian Marcelle Pollington on, of all things, the subject of geraniums.  I thought of her as I listened to oral history interviews of community elders in Elk Rapids.  She would have fit right […]

Promise of spring – WHHS geranium sale

January 20, 2008

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It’s ten degrees outside my front door this morning, but there’s also a promise that spring will come.  The Wilkinson Homestead Historical Society 2008 Geranium Order Form arrived, just in time to supply a little hope!  The order deadline is February 15 for plants that will be ready in May.  Go ahead – have a little faith in the face […]