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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Ice out on the Bay-sand and shale in
The lake has been doing a little redecorating, shifting the sand around, uncovering lost worlds. I thought this looked exactly like the remains of a Roman road. Or perhaps Erickson Road, which was not built so well as a Roman road. It’s really bluegreen Ellsworth shale, layered, splitting, extending deep beneath the beach and far […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
Katherine’s got crocuses and we’re not sure there’s a cure
March 16, 2010
Last night I opened an email from Katherine: See what I found in my yard TODAY. There are a dozen or more coming up! Spring fever’s bustin’ out all over the place, and I’m pretty sure it’s catching. I know I have a bad case myself . . .
Posted in: Letters from Katherine
Freedom’s just another word for fishing
March 15, 2010
As Ratty said to Mole, there is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. And Babs . . . well, Babs lets her photos do the talking. Every week photographer Babs Young captures moments in northern Michigan, and every week she sends one to Torch Lake Views just for you. […]
Posted in: Babs Young photos
The tangled web
March 15, 2010
Study the way this place changed from forest to farmland and resort area, and pretty soon you will find yourself up to your eyebrows in Civil War veterans. Men and boys—so many boys—who enlisted or were drafted, who lost a limb or languished from disease, who came home broken in some indefinable way. . . women who wrested survival […]
Posted in: Antrim County history
Last ice on Torch Lake
March 15, 2010
Early in the week the ice on Torch Lake shattered into tinkling shards over at the Day Park. Babs Young and Chris Szejbach were there, capturing a swirl of jade here . . . . . . glints of blood rubies, crystals, amethysts, tumbling in the sunlight, then vanishing. At Eastport, Katherine writes, The ice wasn’t gone from the north […]
OK Snowbirds – come home and be counted!
March 12, 2010
Here’s the deal. It’s time for the Big Count and a whole bunch of you are down in Florida and Arizona and Alabama for heaven’s sake. If Census Day were July 4 instead of April 1, Michigan might be recorded as the most populous state in the Union, but it’s not and we’re not and that’s […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
Carsten in Denmark
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