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Browsing All posts tagged under »Spring«
Mooning about on Grand Traverse Bay
I have been trying for years to capture something I saw one glorious morning
Living on the lake
March 16, 2011
Katherine writes: The changes to the lake in the spring are minute by minute, second by second . . .
Close to spring
March 14, 2011
Today has been a very fine day, and the Duo and I made best use of it, wandering through the sun-sparkled woods and down to the bayshore. The wet snow that decked the trees on Friday had melted and refrozen, turning to tiny crystal sculptures shooting off rainbows. This is the sort of late winter […]
Always time for a good sunset
May 21, 2010
The other night we trotted down to the beach to experiment with the Night Portrait setting on the point’n’shoot camera. The dogs got bored before I did, but they put up with me. There was a nice sunset of the delicate variety, as opposed to the scarlet and purple drama that can flare across the […]
Katherine’s being cagey. Bet she found morels.
April 29, 2010
Katherine has been out and about, following her inclinations, which are reliable. She found a small lake with bronze lily pads floating on it. She sent us a picture of it, from “somewhere in Charlevoix County.” The lily pads, she says, might be new this year or left over from last year. “Have to go […]
Signs you might be Up North
April 28, 2010
The trilliums are in full bloom. Hundreds of them flow over the drumlins, staking their claim to the land. Cars and trucks with For Sale signs stuck in the windows sprout along the highway. Optimists polish up the family buggy, slap a price and a phone number on it, park it out front of the […]
Books in Northport
- Reading, Talking, and Islands of Light
- A Year of Reading: Books Read 2025
- New Year’s Resolution: Write More Letters!
- Nineteen Years Ago
- I don't have much to say.
- It's all in here: the sublime, silly, dangerous, petty, too cute for words, and a shed tear.
- From the Tenth to the Twelfth
- Goodbye, November. Hello, Winter!
- Gratitude and Death
- Deer Season, Among Books
Carsten in Denmark
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Torch Lake Views 
March 20, 2011
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