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Browsing All Posts filed under »Letters from the Weatherman«
The Weatherman delivers news and cookies
Bruce the Weatherman is a versatile sort of man. On Friday he drove through a blizzard to deliver some of Andi’s homemade cookies to the Writing Studio and Bait Shop. Then he sent a Weather Report that I know all you snowbirds will enjoy. He wrote: The impressive cold has had me watching the ice […]
The Weatherman weighs in
February 20, 2013
Bruce Laidlaw read yesterday’s post, which featured a careful selection of Sunny Winter Day images from earlier in the month. Then he looked outside his window at the thrashing Bay, and replied: Thanks for the new post. Things looked so nice. You couldn’t take those photos today. It’s blowing 35 [mph] here and it has […]
Tiger and the 8 point buck
November 15, 2012
I am in receipt of a valuable contribution in honor of St. Venison’s Day. Weatherman Bruce Laidlaw writes: You seemed skeptical about my report of a deer herd within Ann Arbor. Considering your recent experience with a suicidal deer, I thought I would give you some evidence of the herd. Yesterday morning, I let the […]
Forecast: Heatwave, chance of whimsy
July 14, 2012
It is hot and sticky again. I am almost out of lemonade, and entirely out of ideas. Fortunately Bruce and Andi Laidlaw have been rummaging around in the archives again.
Un-moose at leisure
June 30, 2012
Bruce Laidlaw was out and about along M-88 and stopped to admire the elk at Conant's Maplehurst Farms . . . which are definitely not moose but do answer to wapiti or omashkooz.
Show ‘n’ Tell
February 6, 2011
So there was Andi Laidlaw, down on the beach, walking Tiger on his leash.
Books in Northport
- I don't have much to say.
- It's all in here: the sublime, silly, dangerous, petty, too cute for words, and a shed tear.
- From the Tenth to the Twelfth
- Goodbye, November. Hello, Winter!
- Gratitude and Death
- Deer Season, Among Books
- Time’s Wingèd Chariot
- Looking and Looking and Looking!
- Color/Light and Home in Autumn
- Turn, Turn, Turn
Carsten in Denmark
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Torch Lake Views 
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