Monthly Archives: October 2010

Visit this weird blog at your discretion. Happy Halloween!

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Kathy

Happy Halloween, blog readers!  I hope you are enjoying your trick-or-treat holiday. Offering you some football photos from the other night.  (Remember?  The football “date” my husband and I went on the other night?  After the train photos?  OK, you … Continue reading →

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Listen to that lonesome train engine whistle…meet you on the midnight railway tracks…

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Kathy

She’s a railroad lady Just a little bit shady Spending her life on the trains She’s a semi good looker The fast rails they took ‘er Now she’s tryin’ Just tryin’ to get home again. Jimmy Buffett, Willie Nelson, Jerry … Continue reading →

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Flowers, Trains, Football?

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Kathy

Barry looks over my shoulder at the computer yesterday.  We peer at photos. He says, “Hey, Kathy, aren’t you going to publish these photos?” “I don’t know,” I mumble.  “You’d better hurry,” he replies.  “It’s going to be snowing soon … Continue reading →

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Requiem for the trees: October storm, 2010

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Kathy

Upper Peninsula, Michigan.  The aftermath of the October storm, 2010.  Time for a body count, to locate the victims of this wild and fierce storm.  Time to see the effects of the high winds which swirled around a massive barometric … Continue reading →

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Aftermath of the storm

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Kathy

A storm is a strange creature.  It blows into our lives, sometimes unexpectedly, sometimes creating tumultuous havoc as it roars through. Its winds blow through the land without rhyme or reason.  In one swath of forest it topples trees like … Continue reading →

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Wind gusts blowing! Trees crashing! No power…

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Kathy

Ladies and gentlemen, I am typing fast.  I am typing so fast my fingers are smoking and the thoughts won’t keep up with the typing fingers! We have to hurry, you see.  It’s the barometer’s fault.  Apparently it dropped below … Continue reading →

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Black stone, white sea

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Kathy
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Help! My brain switch won’t turn on!

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Kathy

Does anyone else have a brain response switch that flips on and off?  A switch that allows and doesn’t allow you to respond to your emails and comments? Or does everyone else in the Universe read their email or blog comments and … Continue reading →

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Our strange and wonderful Upper Peninsula

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Kathy

             

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I am going to (*******) with my new (****) when all the (******)have fallen

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Kathy

Can you guess the answer to yesterday’s guessing game from the blog title? I hope so. But we’ll let you think for a few more minutes before revealing the answer.  (Which really probably isn’t that interesting to anyone else, but … Continue reading →

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