Letters from Katherine: Old Barns

June 3, 2009

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Katherine writes: Old barns make me happy. Being an owner of an old barn myself, when I see them in a state of disrepair I feel for the people who own them. It’s expensive to keep them up and I wonder if there’s not a program to help owners of old barns? Old barns have […]

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Things worth clicking on and a bit of irony

June 2, 2009

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Just for fun, while I busy myself writing a couple of overdue stories. Photographer Ken Scott’s playful Planet: DH Day (originally printed on the Leelanau Enterprise Back Page 5-28-09).  “Toto, we’re not in Leelanau County anymore . . . “ Mrs. Uhdd’s extraordinary post on damselflies. Really, these photos are something special. And then this . . […]

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Orchard check

June 1, 2009

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On our rounds we wander into orchards where we have permission to be and check on progress. So far so good, as far as I can tell–which isn’t very far. In place of clouds of blossoms there are tidy rows of trees leafed out in fresh green. Hard little cherries grow green on the branch.  […]

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Babs at Mackinac again on a bright and breezy day

June 1, 2009

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  This is a pretty big image, and it takes a long time to download if you have slow dialup, but isn’t it bracing?  Babs wrote: I found myself, once again, on Mackinac Island and although mighty cold, much of time it was sunny. I took over 250 photos.  Most have been deleted but a few […]

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Letters from Katherine: Deer camp for the Merry Pranksters?

May 31, 2009

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Another in the continuing saga of the make-do spirit of Up North—or perhaps of our persistent eccentricity.  This from Katherine: Was on my way home, not the direct route, when I spied a bus the Merry Pranksters would be proud to call home. It is maybe a deer camp because there is a wood stove […]

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And sometimes loveliness falls in your lap

May 30, 2009

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So yesterday was a busy day, what with all the things we’d put off all week, and we had to do laundry.  Off to the Wash Basket in Central Lake.  While the clothes tumbled in the dryer, Miss Sadie and the Cowboy took each other for a walk in the grass behind the building, and […]

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