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- Michigan Network Alliance press release
- Page of pretty pictures to take your mind off the attack flies
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- Providence Farm
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- New Community Services Building Dedicated
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- Township boat ramp on NW Torch Lake Drive
- Creswell Road rustic boat ramp on the Bay
- Chore and Maintenance Services
- Daytrip: Little Norway’s Winterfest
- Surely, Shirley will get it done
- Winning recipes from the 2009 Friske’s Cherry Recipe Contest
- Phragmites at the TBNP beach pond
- Trash and tracks at the TBNP
- Blasted bugs at the TBNP
- Garden Cafe
- Indian Summer – copyright 2009, Gerry Sell
- Buttercups and ferns and potential raspberries
- Torch Lake Storage and Mini-Warehouse
- Phragmites stories in the Elk Rapids News
- Pine Hill Classes August 2009
- Parks and Trails
- Torch Lake boat launch update: DNR Construction Crew at Eastport Landing
- Roots & Wings workshop at Pine Hill
- Manicurist Audrey Stolp
- Providence Farm newsletter, March 2010
- Hard freeze on Farrell Road
- Slideshow from the 2010 Petoskey Stone Festival
- Becky’s Beach
- Antrim Creek Natural Area
- Advent Calendar, Day 1 – An excellent treat
- First night of Chanukah – an excellent treat
- Karma’s Daffy Dozen
- White Pine Down
- “Treasures from the Holidays” opens in Elk Rapids
- Ourstory
- Wilkinson Homestead Historical Society
- Photos – Milk hauler jack-knifes on Essex Road
- ERN – A peek inside the CSB
- ERN – Milk shake!
- ERN – Hardwater sailors skim across Torch
- Time Capsule Contents
- Connie and Gerry Contrive to Stay out of Jail
- Gallery – Fire trucks at IGA
- The Great Bike Trek of 2010
- Dennis Orlowski reception at Torch Lake Market
- Odi and Crystal cook for you – slideshow
- Torch Lake Township meets Mongolian cuisine
- Water Under the Bridge: Poems from the Elk Rapids Elders Project
- Portraits of people
- Community issues
- ERAHS 2012 PowerPoint
- Gallery Babs
- Environmental Art Scrapbook
- Mama Nature’s Index Page
From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Lake effect
All day today the Weather Widget over in the right column has been posting an Advisory! of a winter storm coming our way, bearing–surprise surprise–lake effect snow. A lake effect snow warning remains in effect until 11 am EST Monday . . . . Overnight snow accumulations within the warned area are expected to range […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors, Babs Young photos
New roof
November 14, 2008
There are a lot of tumbledown wooden structures in Antrim County–barns and icehouses and privies and cabins that have long since outlived their usefulness. They tend to molder away gently, becoming more picturesque as time passes. There are a fair number of signs in Antrim County, too, advertising everything from U-Pick peaches to Lakefront Condominiums. […]
A good ol’ joke from DOD
November 14, 2008
My father, a/k/a Dear Old Dad, posted this joke on our family blog, and I thought you should have it too, no matter how you voted. It’s an oldie but a goodie, sort of like most of us in Torch Lake Township. Now here is the reason this joke is pertinent. I suspect that a lot of […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
Hunkering down in the drumlins
November 13, 2008
The Writing Studio and Bait Shop is surrounded by a nice mix of hardwoods with a few evergreens. It makes for a pleasant green view all summer, and a lovely golden glow in October. In early November fallen leaves blend into a russet coverlet, and deer move among the bare trees. For the first time […]
Letters from Katherine: A different view
November 12, 2008
After I posted the autumn orchard by Babs Young, I got this letter from Katherine: Here’s a different view of (maybe) the same trees. It is interesting how they still have their leaves while all the other trees, with the exception of oak trees, have lost theirs. What’s with the oak trees anyway? It takes […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors, Letters from Katherine
November song
November 11, 2008
On November 11, 1918, at 11:00 a.m. the Allies and the Central Powers signed an Armistice that would eventually end what they hoped was the War to End All Wars. Although World War II and the Korean War shattered that hope, we continued to celebrate Armistice Day when I was a little girl. Veterans’ organizations sold red crepe paper poppies to raise funds for disabled […]
Posted in: Torch Lake memories
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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November 16, 2008
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