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- “Treasures from the Holidays” opens in Elk Rapids
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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
- Odi and Crystal cook for you – slideshow
- Torch Lake Township meets Mongolian cuisine
- Water Under the Bridge: Poems from the Elk Rapids Elders Project
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Browsing All Posts filed under »Up North in Michigan«
The Road to Barnard, Part 1: Babs captures winter
The moment I saw the photo I wanted to know who owned that house, and when the barns were built, and whether that interesting red outbuilding is a repurposed one-room schoolhouse. I remembered exploring Barnard on a summer evening. There was an old cemetery, a church, a Grange Hall. There was a mystery . . . what was it? Something to do with a memorial, something buried . . . I had to go back.
Hope for sufferers of TLC withdrawal
January 26, 2016
When the Torch Lake Cafe closed last summer, a loud wail went up across the Township. Where will we have breakfast??!!?? And Friday fish dinner? And live music with Leanna Collins and friends? Then word went around that Leanna had bought Sneakin’s. That turned out to be true. Pretty soon there was a lot of construction activity going on […]
Babs on Sunday*
January 25, 2016
*I am shamelessly stealing from Mrs. Uphilldowndale’s Spud on Sunday series. As we have discussed, I have a lot of catching up to do around here. Babs Young has been sending her weekly Michigan Pics the whole time. I have enjoyed every one of them, but I am not going to post two years’ worth here […]
Beachcombing
July 15, 2014
We’ve been having company. One weekend our guest was Elizabeth Lurie, who unaccountably enjoys walks with the Disreputable Duo. That is how she came to take a picture of Miss Sadie and me at the Torch Bay Nature Preserve. We started off on a brisk and breezy morning that warmed right up. The kind […]
Giant fishflies, green flowers, and a furry Cyclops
July 6, 2014
We have been seeing unusual things recently, and a surprising number of them are green at least part of the time. This is quite shocking, as we had grown accustomed to unrelieved shades of white and gray. One morning I found a large insect hiding out on the side of the house. She was about […]
Recycled, repurposed . . . remarkable
July 5, 2014
When Rod and Mira Bell heard that Eastport’s old township hall was on the market again, it struck them as just the place for their Bird Studio and Gallery. The building began life as the Upper Torch Lake Association firehouse shortly after World War II, which intimidates the Bells not at all. They like applying […]
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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