Tom Turkey

Let me introduce you to a friend of mine. This is Tom, and he’s a real turkey.
I know that’s not a very nice thing to say about someone, but in Tom’s case, truer words were never spoken. Tom is the resident turkey of the small animal farm at Bowen’s Mills. He’s also about as nice [...]

Swan Song of the Leaves

This is the time of the last of the leaves. As I write, a deep low pressure center is moving out of northeast Minnesota into Ontario, dragging with it a steamy plume of unseasonably warm, moist air and high winds across the Great Lakes region. It is the inevitable leaf-stripper of late October that denudes [...]

Fall at the Farmer’s Market

Well, a recent visit to the Farmer’s Market certainly brought home the fact the summer is gone and fall is here.  No more strawberries, blueberries, sweet corn or peaches.  Now it’s pumpkins, mums, apples and cider.  The vendors are bundled up against the cold, and probably finding it’s pretty hard making change while wearing mittens!
 But, [...]

October Impressions

Come, take a walk with me through October. It is a path that winds through grouse woods and along quiet pond sides, past blaze-red maples to aster-frosted meadows and beyond; and from painted landscapes that are autumn’s glory to the stripping of the trees by winter’s first cold, windy caress.
October is the year’s latter April, [...]

Logging

“Hello Old Man, How are you getting along? Are you ever going to write to me? It seems pretty cold here. We are all well. George is going to strike out to hunt a job before long. Charley and Sade started to Penn. the next day after I got here. I was up to Sidney’s [...]

The Train

You never know what you are going to see while traveling around the state of Michigan. Recently I came across what appears to be an abandoned train near Traverse City, on 31 where it separates from M37.
 I don’t know the story connected to this train, but I know that there is one. All of the [...]

Table Top Art

 I have written about the Green House Café  before, but whenever we visit Traverse City we make it a point to stop there for breakfast and our recent visit to Traverse City was no exception.
 This is probably the first time we have been there so late in the season and I was very surprised at [...]

Sunrise Over the Bay

My wife and I recently traveled to Traverse City on a chilly, cloudy Saturday. It would not have been our first choice of days to go weather-wise, but we had an appointment there that day so really did not have much of a choice. As always, I threw the camera in the car “just in [...]

Battlefield at Bowen’s Mills

Call me superstitious, but I feel unlucky whenever a cannon is pointed directly at me. So I felt glad when they turned this one downfield, where the Southern army was massing it’s forces—all twenty of them, from what I could judge. Granted, it wasn’t much of a massing, but it’s hard to muster up Confederate [...]

Whitefish Lake

“Wednesday noon. Just finished lunch and feel better. All are well and having a fine time. Home probably Monday.  Claude”    Postmarked July 27, 1910.
 Claude and I have something in common. We both feel better after having a good lunch!
 I think the dog on this card is ready for a boat ride. Dogs have a way [...]

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