Browsing All posts tagged under »Autumn«

Letters from Katherine: Anger

September 28, 2009

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The weather has turned. Rollers crash on the Lake Michigan beaches. Rain falls sideways. Roiling black clouds flew east across the drumlins today, dropping a rainbow on Owen McDowell’s woodlot and a lot of rain on Bayview Farm.  John Sala said the harmonics from the halyards clanging against sailboat masts in the Elk Rapids harbor […]

In search of زهرة عباد الشمس and fall color in Japan

September 26, 2009

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One of my favorite things about the internet is that it links me to faraway places.  I love getting email from 鈴木 千佳子.  I love seeing mysterious search terms that people use to find their way to Torch Lake Views.  Today someone was looking for a زهرة عباد الشمس.  When I used the Google translator, and […]

Autumn love

August 19, 2009

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Spring is widely held to be prime time for lovers, but that is because most people who ponder these things are awash in nostalgia.  For those of us who love autumn, the next three months will be absolutely stuffed with romantic possibility.  And it’s not just us.  The other day as Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and […]

Hunkering down in the drumlins

November 13, 2008

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The Writing Studio and Bait Shop is surrounded by a nice mix of hardwoods with a few evergreens. It makes for a pleasant green view all summer, and a lovely golden glow in October. In early November fallen leaves blend into a russet coverlet, and deer move among the bare trees. For the first time […]

Letters from Katherine: A different view

November 12, 2008

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After I posted the autumn orchard by Babs Young, I got this letter from Katherine: Here’s a different view of (maybe) the same trees. It is interesting how they still have their leaves while all the other trees, with the exception of oak trees, have lost theirs. What’s with the oak trees anyway? It takes […]

Transition time: Don’t tell the cherry trees fall is over

November 9, 2008

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This was the day that Indian Summer closed up the cottage and went to Florida.  This afternoon the Cabin Fever Club carpooled over to Suttons Bay in a light drizzle to see a movie.  (We’d heard that Tell No One, this weekend’s selection in the Beyond the Bay film series, was smart, suspenseful and French, and it […]