Babs on the bridge

October 18, 2009

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This autumn has been a mellow golden one rather than the splashy one we had last year. Babs writes: Fall has come to Northern Michigan. It’s not the most spectacular year for color, but always nice up here. This is the bridge to the library in Elk Rapids looking out to Grand Traverse Bay. Every […]

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The Story Place

October 18, 2009

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The wind piles dry leaves against a fencepost.  Branches cracked away from old oaks and beeches litter the ground.  Deer trails disappear into the woods.  Wild turkeys come here for the beechnuts and acorns.  Coyotes come for the wild turkeys.  I’ve come for the stories.  I spent a cold gray afternoon last week at Bayview Cemetery, listening. […]

Posted in: Torch Lake memories

The water, and under the water, the history

October 17, 2009

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Scott Thomas (Views Infinitum), a photographer from the lake district of western New York, made an assignment: Water, he wrote, moves, stands still, creates and destroys.  Capture it. Around here, the water has pretty much captured us.  It’s our livelihood, our passion, our cradle, our place of rest.  And below the surface there are echoes of our […]

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Daytrip: Serendipity on Dexter Street

October 15, 2009

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We were in Elk Rapids Tuesday spending a week’s wages at the Corner Druggist and wishing for something more pleasant to do when there it was.  Seed.  It’s on Dexter.  You can’t miss it.  Look for the red rooster weathervane.   This is the studio and gallery of Lindy Bishop, recently returned to her northern […]

Cruise the Breezeway, leave the dishes for later

October 14, 2009

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Katherine writes: It was briliant fall weather today so I shirked my household duties that were planned and went for a drive. My philosophy exactly. And look what Katherine saw: I hope that brilliant fall weather holds until Saturday, because the folks along the Breezeway invite you to a color cruise.  Start just up the road […]

Blood, bridge, books – your typical UTLA potluck.

October 13, 2009

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Today was just one of those days. Work work work at the other day job, hardly a moment outdoors (and wasn’t THAT a good thing it’s COLD out there). Just as I was telling myself to get home and tend to little dogs waiting at home with their paws crossed, I spotted a crowd in […]