Ah Sophie, you good dog, you

March 19, 2008

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I’m sorry to tell you that Sophie, the beloved Customer Service Mascot at King Orchards, has died after being hit by a car.  The sweet-tempered Bernese Mountain Dog had a gentle greeting for everyone, and always made me feel very special.  Betsy King says they’re going to honor her memory by bringing a pup sired by one […]

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And another view of the sled dogs

March 17, 2008

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I don’t normally feel compelled to revisit things, but I do feel that Daugherty Johnson’s Sled Dog Snow Sculpture is exceptional.  Here is Daugherty’s own photo of his work.

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Babs got dig-effects! Also bears. Or wolves. Howling.

March 16, 2008

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Ooh, that Babs – she’s got spring fever bad, that one.  She’s been playing with the software, and POW! –  all of a sudden it’s bright out there.  Look at these birches.  Holy Wah.  And that’s not all . . . . . . Babs got bears!  Or wolves.  And cubs.  And howling, for sure.  This […]

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Berging the Carp and Carving the Wolf. Must be the tail end of winter.

March 15, 2008

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OK, it’s beginning to look to me as though people over in Leland have more fun than we do on this side of the Bay.  Go take a quick look at Berging the Carp and tell me that doesn’t look like fun.  It looks like fun.  Now I know we find ways to amuse ourselves at […]

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Township fossils

March 13, 2008

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No, we are not discussing the graying of Torch Lake Township (although whenever I see toddlers I assume they are someone’s grandchildren). Today we celebrate the Petoskey Stone, beloved object of beach searching for generations of summer visitors.  Most readers will already know all they care to about the state stone of Michigan.  Most of them, in […]

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Sunset by Mother Nature – Photo by Babs

March 9, 2008

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Babs Young calls this “the beginnings of a killer sunset across the north end of Torch Lake.”  I call it Mother Nature at her most seductive.  Bet she has spring fever, too, the hussy. 

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Freedom: Verse I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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