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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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Sap’s Up!
Bruce Bigelow likes to have something to do. When he was just a young sprout he used to help his aunt and uncle make maple syrup. He loves maple syrup. He looked around at all the maples in his yard and thought to himself, I am going to tap some trees and make some maple syrup. […]
Kids on the porch, Market going to the dogs, Crazytunias – must be spring
April 3, 2014
It must be spring break. On Wednesday a steady stream of people visited the Elk Rapids Library, where magical vegetables popped up in the lobby. Some of us were there to check out books or to use the broadband-connected workstations. (OK, some of us were there to do both, and went downstairs to the perpetual used […]
A dance to spring
April 1, 2014
When a winter has been Truly Awful every little bit of sunshine has an astonishing effect on a person’s mood. We had a few days of wild optimism over the weekend and, in the manner of Feiffer cartoons (joy tempered with deep anxiety) went dancing. We were not the only ones out and about. I’m pretty sure […]
Icy fire opal
March 31, 2014
Babs Young was out and about on still-frozen Torch Lake as the sun dropped toward the still-frozen horizon. It was all so beautiful, and all so cold . . . but look at that sky! Doesn’t that look like a fire opal? An icy fire opal. It must be a sign. I have decided that […]
Reflection along the Jordan River
March 25, 2014
Babs has been over in East Jordan taking pictures. She pulled into a parking lot overlooking the braided flats of the Jordan River where it empties into the South Arm of Lake Charlevoix, and captured sunshine on ice. Beautiful, she writes, but still very cold. That water is all frozen. I fell in love with the […]
Compliments to the chefs
March 24, 2014
A considerable part of the Township’s year-round population turned up at the First Annual Firehouse Chili Cook-off on Saturday. The firefighters are a wily bunch. They enticed us with excellent treats at no charge. Eight different chili recipes to sample . . . Cornbread and gluten free muffins and an assortment of toppings . . . Cupcakes […]
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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