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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Letters from Katy: Ancestral portraits
There was a note from Katy Newman in today’s mail: “My cattail ancestors: Note the old man in the middle of the photo . . . he is the patriarch I believe.” I cropped and enlarged the photo, so the patriach is now a little left of center (you see how I am) and […]
Posted in: Letters from Katy
Turkeys, turkeys everywhere
October 17, 2008
Once upon a time wild turkeys had practically disappeared from northern Michigan. After a lot of effort by the DNR and conservation groups, they’re plentiful again. A hunter has some property just up the road where he parks a travel trailer during turkey season. He is locally famous for spending an entire day, pre-dawn to […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
Love affair with local food
October 17, 2008
I like knowing where my food comes from. I like fruit picked at the right time, just ripe enough that it will finish sweetening in my fruit bowl, but not so ripe that I have to eat it all that day. (Except peaches. I will buy peaches that I have to eat that minute. I […]
Babs rises above it all
October 12, 2008
Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and I drove home today from a visit downstate, and I kept wishing I could figure out a way to get a really good view of all the wonderful fall color. Well. Babs figured it out. She says, “Schuss Mountain offered a ride up the big chair lift yesterday for three […]
Posted in: Babs Young photos
Social notes
October 11, 2008
Mick Ambler and Rogie were down on the beach the other day, and the bouncy Golden Retriever “puppy” had a great time with Miss Sadie and the Cowboy. They hunted for minnows. They played Chase. They agreed it was fun, and that they need to get away more often. Hmmm.
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
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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October 18, 2008
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