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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
The measure of Mother Nature’s perfidy
Last night Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and I went for our evening walk on bare roads. We did not dilly-dally, because the Weather Widget had warned us what was coming. And indeed it came. Now I ask you, is this fair? It is not fair. But then as Jean Pitchford’s mother used to say, “Nobody […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
Scrubbing our pretty face before The Season
March 28, 2009
I’m on a mission. Poor little Eastport, while admittedly not the most photogenic part of the Township, comes off very badly on Google’s mapping “street view.” Take a look at the intersection of US 31 and M 88. This is the image that greets visitors all over the world if they search Google Maps for […]
Who’s a rural character?
March 27, 2009
We’re engaged in a great debate in the Township about who we want to be. We’re pretty sure we want to “maintain our rural character,” and as the designated Character of suburban Eastport, I am glad to hear it. But what does that mean exactly? A community of lakefront retreats? An agricultural horn o’ plenty? An […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
The Rock of Eastport
March 25, 2009
On a recent morning the air hinted of spring and the beach was passable. Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and I had a wonderful time on our walk. I was particularly pleased with some of the snapshots I took, including this one: Then I saw what Greg Jolliffe had done with his rock over on the […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors, Torch Lake memories
Along the northern frontier
March 25, 2009
I’ll bet when you hear “Border Town” you think of dusty places in the Southwest, facing each other across the Rio Grande, full of Border Patrol vans driven by guys in black sunglasses. You probably don’t think of the northern lakes and rivers that frame Michigan so attractively. But here we are, snuggled up to Ontario, hockey-loving, auto-building voyageurs linked forever by ties […]
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Local products, local jobs
March 24, 2009
Someone calculated that if every household in the state spent just $10 of its weekly food budget on items grown or processed in Michigan, it would keep $37 million circulating in the state’s economy, and would help keep jobs here, too. Makes sense to me, and made sense to Russ and Donna Abbott. Their Eastport […]
Posted in: In Business in Torch Lake, 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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March 29, 2009
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