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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Garden Cafe opens at Pine Hill
Alana Haley from Pine Hill Nursery sent a press release. There’s a new Garden Cafe at Pine Hill Nursery, and Julie Kamp is in charge. Plus—and this is gonna save me a lot of gas—they’re partnering with Java Jones of Elk Rapids on this enterprise. Oh boy oh boy. I went over there yesterday and […]
Sweet invasion and the return of a native
May 15, 2009
A few days ago I learned, from a lovely post at Flandrum Hill, that the myrtle growing in my yard is not just an unkempt inheritance from a previous owner, but periwinkle, a native plant that belongs right where it is, holding my sandy slope in place. Good on it. The sweet woodruff growing beside […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
Didjenos and bank robbers – Mondays in Eastport are full of surprises
May 14, 2009
The Wilkinson Homestead Historical Society isn’t your average local history bunch. For one thing, it sponsors a summer lecture series that covers an amazing amount of local ground in very entertaining ways. Norton Bretz recruits the speakers, which probably explains the breadth of subject matter and the penchant for the piquant. This year’s lineup: June […]
Jill McLaughlin has a ranch, Ee-I Ee-I Ohh
May 13, 2009
And on this ranch she has a daft dog named Torch, three horses (Montgomery, Hooper and Lucy) and a miniature donkey named Sierra. OK, the ranch is, strictly speaking, on Katy Newman’s Bayview Farm. However, the horses and the daft dog and the miniature donkey are Jill’s, along with the vet bills and way more kibble than we […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
Ready to rumble
May 13, 2009
Today we bring you another in our important series on Highway Safety. I was over at the Claars’ working on the Wilkinson tax return with Connie when Dick came home from the Post Office and told us some outlandish story of road workers tearing up the asphalt on US-31. Then he explained. They’re making rumble […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
Great and small, sweet and sad, each day brings news
May 12, 2009
I have been thinking about Lee Colvin, whose funeral begins in a couple of hours over at Mortensen’s in Central Lake. He seemed to me above all a truly happy man, who loved his abundant family and Torch Lake, liked his neighbors, and thought life was just one interesting thing after another. I enjoyed watching […]
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 15, 2009
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