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, [...]

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 [...]

The River Otters of Fishtown

Let me admit it up front: my otter images are not the best photos I’ve ever taken.
On the other hand, they’re the only otter photos I’ve ever taken, because until now, I’ve never seen otters up close. In fact, until this spring, when I caught a momentary glimpse of one along the Coldwater River, I [...]

Sundown at Sleeping Bear

Along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, from near Gary, Indiana, all the way north to Wilderness State Park west of the Mackinac Bridge, stretches a far-reaching ribbon of white, windblown dunes. Piled high by the prevailing westerlies blowing off the big lake, these great sand mountains are a hallmark of Michigan’s west coast.
Warren Dunes, [...]

Fife Lake

Fife Lake, known by some as 49633, is a wonderful Michigan lake with a city named after it. Or maybe I have that backwards. Fife Lake is located on the county lines of Grand Traverse and Kalkaska counties. Fife Lake has 615 plus acres of surface waters with pocket depths of up to 55 feet.
On [...]

Cherry Vinaigrette

Frequently during the year we find ourselves passing through or stopping in the Traverse City area. On those summer Saturday visits I always stop at the Farmers Market. One must have item for me is the Cherry Vinaigrette, produced by Six Lugs LLC
This tasty dressing is not available in many places down state, and just [...]

Cherry Festival

Hi Folks: We just left Traverse City and are headed for the Straits. It has rained a lot of the time yesterday and today, but as the kids say “We are having a ball”.  July 10, 1956
With the annual National Cherry Festival about to begin in Traverse City, I thought it would be fitting to [...]

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