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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Babs visits the northeastern precincts
Stonehedge Farm has been on my list of places to explore since last winter, but did I get there and take pictures and tell you all about it? I did not. Now Babs has beat my time with this wonderful post: These are machines that spin roving into yarn at Stonehedge Farm and Fiber Mill […]
Posted in: Babs Young photos, Day trips in Northern Michigan
Letters from Katy: Waterspout on the Bay (Tornado on the Torch?)
September 7, 2008
Just a little while ago Katy Newman wrote: I know that you collect rainbows…this funnel shaped cloud (waterspout?) appeared out my bedroom window this afternoon. Then she attached a sequence of four photos. (See the gallery below-click to enlarge any image.) Here’s an enlarged detail of her fourth photo:
Posted in: Letters from Katy
Don’t tell Tim Paczesny you can’t grow a business in Torch Lake Township
September 7, 2008
I ran into Tim Paczesny at the IGA this week and he was beaming. Education Outdoors (the little Eastport company that could) had just sent off its first shipment of 1600 CAMP Board Games to Barnes & Noble, with another shipment to follow. “It was an exciting day for us,” Tim told me. No kidding! […]
Posted in: In Business in Torch Lake
September song – verse one
September 6, 2008
This morning clouds piled over the bay, and tall trees tossed in the wind, all silver and slate. Signs of summer fading are everywhere. The cedars are covered with their rosebud cones. The grasses are pale, and the first bright leaves glow against the deep green of the pines. The pileated woodpeckers have been busy […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
Blog watching – what makes people click anyway?
September 6, 2008
The software I use for this blog tells me a lot about how people find Torch Lake Views, and what they’re interested in when they get here. (No, it doesn’t tell me what pages you, personally, are reading. It’s just an overall count.) On the one hand, it’s a humbling experience. Some of the posts […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
Margaret Ann Bretz, 1921-2008
September 4, 2008
Margaret Ann Bretz 87, of Eastport, passed away Sunday, August 31, 2008 at the Eastport Village Care Home near her home. Ann was born in Detroit April 6, 1921 the eldest of four children of Norton H. and Dorothy (Waite) Pearl. She met her future husband, Otto H. Bretz, in a drama class at Cooley […]
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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September 8, 2008
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