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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Spring chores, in which the Cowboy is shorn and the Owl reappears
We have been busy around the Writing Studio and Bait Shop, on the theory that when things fall apart that we can’t fix, we should find something we can fix and do that. Excellent. We can wash windows and screens. We have a lot of windows and screens, and three sets of sliding glass doors. We set to […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors, Up North in Michigan
I say spring arrived on May 18
June 3, 2014
It certainly wasn’t very springlike on May 2, when it snowed. The snow melted practically as fast as it landed, but that was probably because I threatened it with a welding torch. It wasn’t very springlike on May 5, when plenty of ice bobbed about in the Bay. It wasn’t even our ice. It was the ice from […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors, Up North in Michigan
Dispatches from the front
June 2, 2014
I created a draft of this post back on March 19 and never finished it. I think it depressed me . . . Things are much better now, and I will show you all that tomorrow. But tonight it’s so warm here that I feel the need of a little cooling off. This should do. […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
Enlightenment
May 17, 2014
Enlighten is one of ten new sculptures that will be installed during May along the ArtRapids! Walk of Art in Elk Rapids. (Learn more about sculptor Margot McMahon and her work here). Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and I encourage you to make the trip. You will find refreshment for your spirit. When you have finished […]
The Torch aflame
April 28, 2014
A fair number of blue waters in the North Country are named Torch Lake or Lac du Flambeau. We trace the name to fishing by torchlight in the times before these times – the days of endless forests of tall pines and canoes paddled by Anishinaabe and Metis voyageurs. We imagine the torches flickering in […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors, Babs Young photos
Springiness
April 27, 2014
I have just discovered truthiness. The word, not the concept. I gather most of you have known about it since, oh, 2005 or so, but I heard the word for the first time on the radio yesterday. The concept, if not the word, has been part of my analysis of Unfortunate Contemporary Discourse for a […]
Carsten in Denmark
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