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- Gallery – Fire trucks at IGA
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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Red sky in the morning
This morning was good medicine for the color-starved. Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and I enjoyed our walk very much. Then we got in the car and went over to the Day Park for more. Dawn at the Writing Studio and Bait Shop Sunrise in the woods Sunrise reflected over Grand Traverse Bay Sunrise over […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
Letters from Babs: Bluejay in budding maple
March 23, 2009
Babs writes: It was a beautiful day here and I caught this Bluejay just outside my back door. I didn’t realize that the maple trees had these big buds until I looked at this photo. Spring may come to northern Michigan yet. Every week photographer Babs Young captures moments in northern Michigan, and every week she […]
Posted in: Babs Young photos
Letters from Chris: Brick on Water
March 22, 2009
As the days lengthen, the denizens of Torch Lake are out and about practicing a little Artism. More of ’em every day. Thomasina Sawyer is delighted. Chris Szejbach writes: Went to the day park to see the ice on the lake. More days like this and it will be gone soon. I called this “brick […]
Posted in: Letters from Chris
March mudness
March 22, 2009
It’s officially Mud Season. Even when it snows in March, it just means there’ll be that much more mud as soon as the sun comes out. There isn’t that much to look at. We begin to dream . . . and we get through. Mama Nature’s little joke Mama Nature will have her little joke, and […]
Letters from Snowbirds in Florida, California, Egypt
March 20, 2009
I am accustomed to emails and calls from friends who are enjoying lovely weather in Florida, California and North Carolina. They read Torch Lake Views to remind themselves how wise they were to depart during the temperamental months. They always mention how pretty the snow looks in the pictures. Then there’s Helmy El-Sherif. Not content […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
Cleaning out the cobwebs
March 20, 2009
The calendar says it’s spring, and I’m prepared to believe that it might be, somewhere, perhaps even here in a couple of weeks or so. I’m determined to do some spring cleaning. Out with the piles of books I’ll never read again. Out with the clothes I’m tired of, or that are tired of me. […]
Posted in: Frugal Bugle
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 23, 2009
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