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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Season of light
Outside the Writing Studio and Bait Shop the land is deep in snow and the earliest dark of the year is gathering. Indoors we’ve lit a fire and heated up some of Sonny’s Swedish sausage. We need comfort at the Winter Solstice. We get cranky. Too introspective for our own good. A couple years ago […]
Posted in: Holidays in Torch Lake Township
Frosty dawn
December 20, 2008
I was deep in the down comforter this morning when the Disreputable Duo and their feline accomplice dug me out and told me it was time to get up. The bedroom window glittered with frost paintings. The sky was blue. There was sunshine. Holy Wah. Off we went on our walk. No one else was about except […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
Let there be music
December 18, 2008
Joanna Hicks sent an email: Would I like to go to the Central Lake Winter/Christmas program? She’d pick me up. Well, I didn’t see how I could go wrong. So there we were last night sitting on the bleachers in the high school gym, watching the kids file in, brass gleaming, parents applauding. A hundred […]
Posted in: Holidays in Torch Lake Township
Christmas at the Ellsworth Farmers Exchange, by Babs Young
December 15, 2008
I love all the photos Babs sends us, but this may be my favorite. Something about it reminds me of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks—except that here there’s a door. A way in, and a way out. What Babs wrote is this: You never know where you will find a little Christmas cheer. Here we are at Ellsworth Farmers Exchange […]
Posted in: Babs Young photos
Beware the West Wind
December 15, 2008
My friend Marcia McClure was living in Buffalo during the Blizzard of 1977, and remembers the sound of the wind howling off Lake Erie for days. That was what got to her. Not the 30-foot snowdrifts that trapped everyone indoors. Not the bitter cold. Not the groceries running low, or the fear that the power […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
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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December 21, 2008
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