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- Page of pretty pictures to take your mind off the attack flies
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- Providence Farm
- 2008 Torch Lake Township Visitors Guide
- New Community Services Building Dedicated
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- Township boat ramp on NW Torch Lake Drive
- Creswell Road rustic boat ramp on the Bay
- Chore and Maintenance Services
- Daytrip: Little Norway’s Winterfest
- Surely, Shirley will get it done
- Winning recipes from the 2009 Friske’s Cherry Recipe Contest
- Phragmites at the TBNP beach pond
- Trash and tracks at the TBNP
- Blasted bugs at the TBNP
- Garden Cafe
- Indian Summer – copyright 2009, Gerry Sell
- Buttercups and ferns and potential raspberries
- Torch Lake Storage and Mini-Warehouse
- Phragmites stories in the Elk Rapids News
- Pine Hill Classes August 2009
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- Torch Lake boat launch update: DNR Construction Crew at Eastport Landing
- Roots & Wings workshop at Pine Hill
- Manicurist Audrey Stolp
- Providence Farm newsletter, March 2010
- Hard freeze on Farrell Road
- 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
- White Pine Down
- “Treasures from the Holidays” opens in Elk Rapids
- Ourstory
- Wilkinson Homestead Historical Society
- Photos – Milk hauler jack-knifes on Essex Road
- ERN – A peek inside the CSB
- ERN – Milk shake!
- ERN – Hardwater sailors skim across Torch
- Time Capsule Contents
- 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
- Portraits of people
- Community issues
- ERAHS 2012 PowerPoint
- Gallery Babs
- Environmental Art Scrapbook
- Mama Nature’s Index Page
From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Farm report
As I drove east on M-88 the car filled with an eyewatering aroma. Cowboy! I growled, casting a steely eye at the spaniel in the rearview mirror. He looked confused. We emerged from the reeking cloud. Ah. Now I remembered.
Windblown
April 16, 2012
It has been an April sort of day, with thick clouds spitting rain on the spring flowers and on Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and me. We made one circuit of Eden Shores and came to a decision. It would be prudent to move away from the trees that creaked and twisted in the wind. We […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
From Elk Rapids to Torch Lake everything’s waking up
April 14, 2012
There's an enormous amount of work going on at the upper harbor in Elk Rapids. On Friday the sidewalk superintendents were out in force. And there's more.
A puzzle for you
April 13, 2012
Across the road there is a jumbled pile of branches from what was, if memory serves, a very tall shrub before the big blizzard. The branches have silvery catkins on them that resemble pussy willows but grow in dense clusters.
Posted in: Adventures outdoors, Up North in Michigan
In Cottage Gardens
April 12, 2012
Yesterday was a fine day in the County and Louan Lechler agreed to meet for lunch and explorations. We wound through Ellsworth and East Jordan and back along Old State Road to Central Lake, where we stopped at a tiny cottage across from the Post Office.
Carsten in Denmark
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Torch Lake Views 
April 17, 2012
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