Browsing All posts tagged under »Spring«

Of pussywillows and blessed rain

April 3, 2010

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It’s raining, thank goodness. In fact, it is pouring down like a sonofagun. Naturally I left some shoes outside, oh-well-oh-well, but at least we’ve staved off the serious threat of wildfires for a bit. I’m sorry for everyone who came up for the weekend expecting a continuation of the lovely summery weather we’ve been having.  Perhaps […]

Delights of early spring

March 31, 2010

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It has warmed up considerably in the last couple of days, and everyone is a little giddy.  The Easter lilies at the Eastport Market, tightly closed buds last week, were wide open and fragrant tonight.  When we closed up at 9:00 we could hear the peepers in the wetlands to the west.  Half an hour […]

Katherine’s got crocuses and we’re not sure there’s a cure

March 16, 2010

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Last night I opened an email from Katherine: See what I found in my yard TODAY. There are a dozen or more coming up! Spring fever’s bustin’ out all over the place, and I’m pretty sure it’s catching. I know I have a bad case myself . . .

Freedom’s just another word for fishing

March 15, 2010

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As Ratty said to Mole, there is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.  And Babs . . .  well, Babs lets her photos do the talking. Every week photographer Babs Young captures moments in northern Michigan, and every week she sends one to Torch Lake Views just for you. […]

Great and small, sweet and sad, each day brings news

May 12, 2009

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I have been thinking about Lee Colvin, whose funeral begins in a couple of hours over at Mortensen’s in Central Lake. He seemed to me above all a truly happy man, who loved his abundant family and Torch Lake, liked his neighbors, and thought life was just one interesting thing after another. I enjoyed watching […]

Awwwwwwwww, Babs!

May 3, 2009

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She’s outdone herself. Babs has been cavorting about in the spring sunshine with lambs and llamas and, and . . . awwwwwww! Looky here. She wrote: It appears to be time for spring lambs. This was taken at the farm just south of Atwood near Antrim Dells. Gerry Sell may know who the owner is […]

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