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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
TLV Sunday morning: The tail end of summer
Yoda Cowboy and Obi-Wan Kesadie are of the opinion that it will be a good autumn, particularly if I mean it about more walking.
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
Pettable Bee
August 27, 2010
I was pondering a post that I very much feared would bore you to death when Bing! my Outlook announced the arrival of a new batch of mail. Right there on top was a present from Andi Laidlaw. You are rescued. Andi is a minimalist. Her title is Coneflower and Bee. I am a maximalist, […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors, Letters from Andi
Whistling Up the Bay with Betty Beeby and Char Smith
August 26, 2010
One Thursday in May Char Smith brought her class of 4th graders to visit Betty Beeby. She has done this every year for 24 years. This will be the last year, because Char is retiring. Betty says she’s retiring too. I’m not sure whether to believe either of them, but time will tell. For those […]
Moon rises over Blue Heaven
August 25, 2010
Meander north along US-31 through Torch Lake Township, which is pretty much the only way you can make the trip, and you will find the entrance to Blue Heaven right across the highway from the entrance to Eden Shores. Those 1920s real estate developers were wily. But maybe they had it right.
Posted in: Up North in Michigan
Lois Dawson paints the fence
August 24, 2010
On Sunday I was driving along east of Torch Lake in need of bucking up. Maybe Lois Dawson would like to go for a walk. When I got over there, Gary was washing windows and Lois was in the kitchen. Maybe this was not a good time. No, it was a fine time. Here, I should bury my nose in this bundle of sage. It would make me feel better. Wait a minute while the beans got started, and we'd go. (Lois and I would go. Gary would stay and tend the beans. He looked suspiciously contented when we left.)
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
The wrong kind of purple and the wrong kind of swan. The sky’s gonna fall.
August 23, 2010
Babs writes: Here we are in East Jordan with a lovely pair of swans. Now I think that purple is purple loosestrife, which is an invasive species that we are not supposed to like. I do like the color it adds to this photo, so I promise not to like it too much and will try not to photograph it ever again.
Posted in: Babs Young photos
Carsten in Denmark
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