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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Birds and a haircut, two bits
Off to Barbara for a haircut Saturday morning and found a bonus: a couple of killdeer browsing in the grass out front. We watched them through the window and speculated whether they have a nest nearby or were simply out shopping. One of the pair was splashing about in the wet grass with glee. A […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
Mysterious tulips
May 18, 2009
Babs Young writes: And the winner is . . . . I went to Holland, Michigan last week and there were many many tulips. It’s hard to get interesting pictures of these tulips that have not been done a million times. I’m not sure this is that original, so I’ll leave that up to you. Ah, […]
Posted in: Babs Young photos
Quiet clouds of pink.
May 17, 2009
As promised, I returned to the nectarine orchard in search of clouds of pink blossoms. Found ’em, too. Looky here: It was cold up there on the ridge. The wind tossed the branches about, and rose to a howl. Then it would quiet down, and I’d try again to get a focused image. But even […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
A little joke from the Weatherman
May 17, 2009
Bruce Laidlaw sent this along, and Miss Puss liked it a lot. (She is a fan of the Adventures of the Tiger, and thinks dogs receive altogether too much attention in these pages.) Bruce wrote: The Tiger really liked the joke about the fat beagle. Brambles had heard it before.
Posted in: Letters from the Weatherman
Letters from Katherine: Flow
May 16, 2009
There are trilliums and there are trilliums. Katherine writes: Gerry, Just sometimes color gets in the way. I mean, I love color but sometimes it’s just gottta be black and white. I think Katherine has a sort of Lauren Bacall sensibility. I can see her vamping Humphrey Bogart in lush, cinematic black and white and […]
Nectarine pink
May 16, 2009
Last year John King told me that the nectarine blossoms were his favorite. They were, he said, a lovely shade of pink. I didn’t get over there to look at them until they had faded, but I made up for it later by eating lots of nectarines. Anyway, this year I was determined to show you those […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors, Local foods
Books in Northport
- Color is a developing story. So is my bookshop.
- October's Quiet Entrance
- Are you looking for color?
- "Locals' Summer" Comes 'Round Again
- Here Now and Looking Ahead
- Trees, Dogs, Books, Musings
- As August Slip-Slides Away
- Past Mid-Summer to Mid-August
- Recent Past in Village and at Home, In the Midst, and Coming Events
- Books, Dog, Tree Guy, Me, and More
Carsten in Denmark
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May 18, 2009
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