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- Slideshow from the 2010 Petoskey Stone Festival
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- Connie and Gerry Contrive to Stay out of Jail
- Gallery – Fire trucks at IGA
- The Great Bike Trek of 2010
- Dennis Orlowski reception at Torch Lake Market
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- Torch Lake Township meets Mongolian cuisine
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Harvest time in Antrim County
Yesterday was so full of good things to do that I cannot possibly show you all of it. I don’t think I can even fit all the highlights into one post. It began in Elk Rapids with really good coffee and excellent treats first thing in the morning. I was there for a fundraiser for […]
Full moon rising
October 22, 2010
When I was a little girl I loved riding home at night, lying in the back seat of the car, looking up through the window. Mom and Dad murmured in the front seat as the radio played. Telephone poles and tall pines moved past in a steady rhythm. But the moon traveled with us, glinting between the trees, glowing bright across the potato fields.
Fire-breathing trees
October 21, 2010
Yesterday evening light poured over the bright trees. Branches swirled as the west wind wheeled around to come from the north. The sky kept changing. All of this drama, going on right above my head—I stood out on the deck and gave myself a crick in the neck just looking at it, like a country mouse seeing skyscrapers […]
Autumn one leaf at a time
October 17, 2010
I can’t help it. I’m saving these up for when I really need them. In March, for example, when there’s practically nothing to look at but mud. While you’re waiting for them to load, you can go make some nice buttered toast. I will not promise that these are the last of the leaves. I […]
Cows in the pasture, elk in the street, must be pumpkin time
October 16, 2010
We have had one knockout day after another, and every time I think the Big Show is over it astonishes me with another production number. There may be a better time than October in Antrim County, but if there is I have never seen it and I’m not sure my heart could stand it if […]
Books in Northport
- Changing Moods of Northern Michigan
- Scenes & Thoughts From Life & Lit
- Where I've Been Lately
- Spring in Warwickshire, Winter Continues in Leelanau
- Michigan Winter-Spring
- A few books, a few words
- Bookstores, Libraries, Paperbacks, and Hope
- Going Places
- I’ve just been living my life.
- Good News, Good Deeds, Neighbors
Carsten in Denmark
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Torch Lake Views 
October 24, 2010
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