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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Browsing All posts tagged under »Winter«
Long night’s journey into day
I arrived home late on this long night to find this from Babs: This has been a beautiful week. Very cold, lots of snow and great for taking photographs. It’s hard to know which to send. On Saturday morning it was almost zero when I got up with a blue sky and bright sun. Thus […]
Season of light
December 21, 2008
Outside the Writing Studio and Bait Shop the land is deep in snow and the earliest dark of the year is gathering. Indoors we’ve lit a fire and heated up some of Sonny’s Swedish sausage. We need comfort at the Winter Solstice. We get cranky. Too introspective for our own good. A couple years ago […]
Frosty dawn
December 20, 2008
I was deep in the down comforter this morning when the Disreputable Duo and their feline accomplice dug me out and told me it was time to get up. The bedroom window glittered with frost paintings. The sky was blue. There was sunshine. Holy Wah. Off we went on our walk. No one else was about except […]
Let there be music
December 18, 2008
Joanna Hicks sent an email: Would I like to go to the Central Lake Winter/Christmas program? She’d pick me up. Well, I didn’t see how I could go wrong. So there we were last night sitting on the bleachers in the high school gym, watching the kids file in, brass gleaming, parents applauding. A hundred […]
Christmas at the Ellsworth Farmers Exchange, by Babs Young
December 15, 2008
I love all the photos Babs sends us, but this may be my favorite. Something about it reminds me of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks—except that here there’s a door. A way in, and a way out. What Babs wrote is this: You never know where you will find a little Christmas cheer. Here we are at Ellsworth Farmers Exchange […]
Carsten in Denmark
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Torch Lake Views 
December 21, 2008
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