This just in from Katherine: Merry Christmas!!!!!! to all . . . .
Katherine writes: I was wondering if the birds were much more voracious this year than usual because I have been going through bird seed like there’s a hole in the feeder. I caught this deer at the feeder along with 3 of her friends or kids. No wonder the seeds have been going. Hm. Reminds […]
Katherine has been exploring the winter landscape and found these fanciful silhouettes. Dried stalks of sunflowers lean into the wind, as if trudging across the arctic tundra . . .
There are a lot of tumbledown wooden structures in Antrim County–barns and icehouses and privies and cabins that have long since outlived their usefulness. They tend to molder away gently, becoming more picturesque as time passes. There are a fair number of signs in Antrim County, too, advertising everything from U-Pick peaches to Lakefront Condominiums. […]
After I posted the autumn orchard by Babs Young, I got this letter from Katherine: Here’s a different view of (maybe) the same trees. It is interesting how they still have their leaves while all the other trees, with the exception of oak trees, have lost theirs. What’s with the oak trees anyway? It takes […]
Opening email from Katherine or Babs or Katy is like opening a birthday present, except that I don’t have to get a year older. Katherine’s latest offers a choice of gifts. She writes, I’m sending you 2 versions of this because sometimes I play around with them so much I can’t decide which I like better […]
December 25, 2008
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