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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Spring progresses – the good, the bad and the stinky
There were wild turkeys in the driveway when I got up this morning. One big tom strutted about in full display for the hens. Look at me I’m just so gorgeous. He was so comical I missed the photo but they’ll be back. Our walk took us into the drumlins behind the Writing Studio & […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
The Bay is free
April 9, 2009
The ice is gone from the part of Grand Traverse Bay that I can see. Torch Lake is still trapped, but it’s only a matter of days. No matter what Mud Season has in store for us, spring is winning. Not a moment too soon if you ask me. Today sort of got away from […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
Babs Young, Cub Reporter
April 8, 2009
Just in time to watch newspapers disappear entirely from American culture, Babs and I have found our calling as budding journalists. Fortunately, we can spell irony. This morning Babs was having a peaceful breakfast at Sonny’s when Norton Bretz brought in his new toy, an elaborate underwater camera, for show and tell. The quick-witted Babs […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
Can’t help loving extravagant sunsets
April 7, 2009
As I hammered away at the keyboard the setting sun splashed me in the face. I turned to look and POW the whole sky caught fire. I grabbed the camera, flew out the door and down a whole lot of stairs, trotted across the road and trespassed through the neighbors’ yard to get there before […]
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That looks like a mimetolith!
April 7, 2009
This all began when I took a picture on the beach of a piece of bluegreen Ellsworth shale that had split into layers, “delaminated” as it were. There’s more shale than sand on the beach these days, and the stuff fascinates me. The beach is heaped with it. It splits, it shatters, it makes a […]
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Sugaring time
April 6, 2009
Babs Young sent this image as a “Babs Bonus” – it didn’t make it into her Sunday Photo series but she thought I might like to have it . . . I think it’s something special. If you click on the photo you can open a nice big version. Look at the details. The lichen on the […]
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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April 10, 2009
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