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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Post Pantry: Michael and Me, Diving for Guns in Torch Lake, and Staying out of Jail
You know those weeks when you’ve been really busy at work and you buy carryout until you’re sick of it and the refrigerator is full of unidentifiable lumps of things and the kids are crabby and hungry and you don’t really want to cook from scratch? You know those things you keep in the pantry […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
Falling into the sky
June 1, 2008
Another view from Babs Manor – a stunning May morning on Torch Lake. The thing about living on the water is that sometimes it’s hard to tell just which way is up. I can live with the ambiguity. Every week photographer Babs Young captures moments in northern Michigan – the progress of spring or of […]
Posted in: Babs Young photos
And the Season Begins!
May 28, 2008
There are so many things going on that I thought I’d better start telling you about them before I forgot. Besides, once I put it on Torch Lake Views I always know where to find it myself. Lessee now. This week: The Eastport Market’s outdoor produce section is open under the awning Dockworks is pulling boats […]
Betty’s Bench
May 27, 2008
Everyone who knows her – or who read about Betty Beeby on the occasion of her 85th birthday – knows about the bench she commissioned for the Pearl family section in Lakeview Cemetery. Blacksmith Art Brown translated Betty’s design into wrought iron at his studio at Torch Tip Ironworks. In April I dropped by to see the work in progress, and […]
Posted in: Torch Lake memories
Robin Report: Katy’s Empty Nest Syndrome
May 26, 2008
Correspondent Katy Newman sends this update on Baby Robin: Attached are final photos of birdies . . . my nest is empty, and I am left with the shallow twig bowl of optimism and evolution and the circle of life . . . I may listen to The Lion King later . . . (Click […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
Good Morning Mama Nature
May 25, 2008
I ran into Babs earlier today and she told me to expect a photo later, after she figured out which one to send. Here’s what she had to say about the image she chose: I lead such a difficult life. This is what I see many mornings from my bedroom window. Once in a while […]
Posted in: Babs Young photos
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
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- 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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June 5, 2008
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