It’s ended up being a tradition, this visit to the community garden on the Fourth of July.
Over the estuary
The recently completed Galien River boardwalk in New Buffalo spans a beautiful estuary. Berrien County, with the aid of the Pokagon Fund, created this simple but impressive park. It features a 60-foot-high observation platform and a long water-level boardwalk, enabling visitors to explore a locale where the waters of lake and river meet. The observation…
My Edwardian girl
The tag read “Victorian-era painting of girl in a mahogany frame with original wavy glass.” Even though I knew the portrait wasn’t a painting but a print, possibly made as recently as the 1970s, still I bought the thing after getting the price knocked down. The subject of the picture, and the way it was…
The golf-course trail
I have a new favorite trail in the park, which I have dubbed the golf-course trail. It isn’t new, but the newly installed prairie walk at the north end of the Marovitz golf course makes the old secluded trail, which runs between the golf course and the Lake, easier to discover.
Midwestern sublime
What explains the appeal of a beach in winter? Then, the more desolate, forbidding, and uncomfortable the beach, the more delicious the experience of being there is.
Check out my e-book
Hello, everyone– With the help of my friends over at American Inquiry, I have published a brief illustrated e-book about my life in 2015. It’s available for purchase HERE on Amazon.com.
The new grocery store
All the sudden, several old familiar grocery stores are closing and being torn down. From my bus stop at night, I can see the work going forward on the site of the old Jewel at Clark and Division. It was a large store, right next to the el, with a very large surface parking lot. …
Solving the mystery of the antique bed
For about 18 months, the mystery of the antique bed had gone unsolved. I thought of several ways to put its pieces together, but my ideas all involved drilling holes. I kept buying hardware, spending a small fortune. The pieces of the bed should fit together. What was missing?
The very thought
Teens studiously ignore mistletoe on museum outing.
The objective correlative
One day last week, I woke up thinking about ‘the objective correlative’. It was the first thing on my mind. Though an arcane concept, it speaks to issues that come up when blogging with photography. The term is associated with T. S. Eliot, who used it to describe the poet’s task: the search for appropriate…
The driving range
It was a red-letter day, because my husband went to use the driving range, which is right near our home. It was the first time I had seen him engaged in a sport. To see him whack the ball all the way down the range was just amazing.
Cleaning the cold room
Yesterday was a work day in Michigan. I spent the afternoon cleaning out the cold room.
