Opening email from Katherine or Babs or Katy is like opening a birthday present, except that I don’t have to get a year older. Katherine’s latest offers a choice of gifts. She writes, I’m sending you 2 versions of this because sometimes I play around with them so much I can’t decide which I like better […]
It’s no coincidence that Babs and I would wend our way along the same roads as we go about our business. It’s no coincidence that we’d both think the view of Shooks Farm looking north on M-88 is something special. And it’s no coincidence that she’d make such a striking image. Nothing like talent combined […]
At dark-thirty this morning Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and I headed out to get the paper and found our stairs covered in leaves and Wintry Mix. They flung themselves down with dogly joy, but I crept along clinging to the handrail with a death grip. We made it across the road, retrieved the Record-Eagle from its […]
Babs writes: I told you the color was going fast, well not this fast. But then, there are other ways to look at color. How about that Michigan sky . . . We’re having a sleety thunderstorm as I write this late on Sunday night. Enjoy every splash of color you see. Store it up […]
Katherine remains in her Black and White Period. She writes: This was taken on my way to somewhere (and I’m getting old because I can’t remember where). I think it was somewhere near Ellsworth? Maybe between there and Central Lake? Wherever she found the horses, the image is arresting. I’m particularly struck by the fall trees […]
Babs writes: The color is going fast, but I found this little vista on Kidder Road on the way to East Jordan.
November 7, 2008
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