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- Creswell Road rustic boat ramp on the Bay
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- Buttercups and ferns and potential raspberries
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- Roots & Wings workshop at Pine Hill
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- Providence Farm newsletter, March 2010
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- 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
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- “Treasures from the Holidays” opens in Elk Rapids
- Ourstory
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- ERN – A peek inside the CSB
- ERN – Milk shake!
- ERN – Hardwater sailors skim across Torch
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- 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
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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
In gratitude
The annual migration of Summer People began on Friday, and boy are we glad to see ’em and be ’em. The parking lot at the IGA filled up with vans and RVs. Dad loaded up on grass seed and softener salt and Mom stalked the hardware aisles in search of paint samples and – oh […]
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How cold was it? It was so cold . . .
May 22, 2008
Let’s have a word about the weather, Mama Nature. We agreed that I would stop whining about the cold back in April when, let’s face it, we always have some rotten lousy gray rainy . . . I’m sorry. I promised. But Mama, it’s MAY now. Cherry blossoms. Nectarine blossoms. Buzzing bees. Morel mushrooms. Baby […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
Babs goes to the library
May 18, 2008
I loved the Carnegie Library in Rhinelander Wisconsin. I remember the way the books felt in my hand – the serene atmosphere – the wonderful illustrations in the Beatrix Potter books – the way the children’s section smelled, that mix of dust and old paper and ink and furniture polish and just a hint of […]
Posted in: Babs Young photos
So many blogly duties, so little time . . .
May 14, 2008
In which Miss Sadie acquires a faceful of quills, Windows Vista behaves badly, and great expense is incurred – but at least we get a new picture of the Day Park and we’re going to dinner with Michael Moore I’ve been meaning to change the Torch Lake Views banner photo. Things have greened up a […]
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Oh, Mrs. Uhdd, wait’ll you hear about this wee scam!
May 13, 2008
In an earlier post I deplored the proposed Alba Injection Well, and received an energetic response from UK reader Heather Uphilldowndale: It’s not my water, but yay, I’d be cross about that wee scam!! Wonder what she’ll make of this?
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Blossoms from Babs – Happy Day to Everyone
May 11, 2008
Babs sent you a present today, with this note: The cherry blossoms are reaching their peak. Here are some that I’ve enhanced a bit in photoshop. I was going to find some marsh marigolds but Gerry beat me to them. Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers. Happy day to the rest of us.
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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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May 25, 2008
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