A fair number of blue waters in the North Country are named Torch Lake or Lac du Flambeau. We trace the name to fishing by torchlight in the times before these times – the days of endless forests of tall pines and canoes paddled by Anishinaabe and Metis voyageurs. We imagine the torches flickering in […]
What can I say, I press “Publish” and my post goes up, amateur snapshots and all. An hour or so later I open my email to discover the weekly Michigan Pic from Babs Young: Babs is better. On the other hand, she is persuaded, based on that very view, that spring is still a long way […]
Not only did I fail to tell you all about Polish dinner at the Hacienda and getting my first deer but I have been scooped yet again. Intolerable. I really must do better. In the meantime I must eat humble pie. The Michigan Picture of the Week is a splendid autumn sunset taken from my favorite bluff […]
There we were minding our own business having a little walk up on the top of the second ridge when fat snowflakes started to fall. Walking across all that emerald grass while the air filled with fluff was like being in a pillow fight with Mama Nature. Then the wind kicked up and blew the […]
There are many, many kinds of people in the world, among them people who think that it is possible to have entirely too many sunsets, thank you very much. I do not understand that position. I stand four-square with Babs Young in the “never too many sunsets” camp. She writes: I’ve been spending a lot […]
So I peek in my inbox and there is mail from Katherine. She writes, Was sitting reading and happened to look up and saw a giant pinkish orange cloud over Torch Lake. It was so cool but people don’t use that word much anymore but I don’t want to use awesome so I’ll just continue […]
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