Tag Archives: outdoors

It takes a lifetime to grow deep roots

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Kathy

It takes a lifetime, perhaps, to really know a piece of land.  We men and women, tramping here, and peering there at robin nests and butterfly landings, are merely infants in nature’s scheme, even though we like to imagine we’re … Continue reading →

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It’s a dangerous world outside our front door…

Posted on June 1, 2013 by Kathy

We’re living in dangerous times, my friends. It’s getting quite scary to open the front door. We have eight–I repeat, eight–ruby-throated hummingbirds buzzing and squawking and hollering and dive-bombing anything that walks, flies or carries a camera.

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Escape

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Kathy

This week’s photo challenge at WordPress is:  Escape. Just wanted to let you know.  We’ve finally busted out of winter here in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula after almost seven months. We’ve successfully escaped. We can only hope someone hid the keys … Continue reading →

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Melt

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Kathy

The Long Winter seems to be exiting just in time for May.  We can only hope.  Last weekend the temperatures soared to about 70 degrees (21 C) and our snow began to melt, melt, melt. We humans scurried outside, sun … Continue reading →

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April madness

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Kathy

The long winter continues. Another eight inches of snow yesterday morning, give or take three inches.  (It could have been eleven inches.  We’ve ceased measuring in late April.) I am really OK with it.  No need to offer condolences.  We … Continue reading →

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The light of an ordinary trip through pea soup fog to Marquette

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Kathy

Here we are in Marquette, a town 78 miles from our Little House in the Big Woods.  It’s the Big City, kids.  It even has a Starbucks!  How I love the city–just as much as the woods… Barry has to … Continue reading →

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Miracle

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Kathy

Here’s what just happened. I was out reading your blogs, buzzing here and there in the blogosphere for the past hour or so, when suddenly a Fierce Desire struck.  I’m never sure what to do about these Fierce Desires to … Continue reading →

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Tiptoeing away…

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Kathy

You’ve been expecting this, haven’t you? You’ve been wondering when Kathy is taking another blogging break? You clever reader. You know how it goes.  She writes like crazy for months, and then she accelerates and writes every day for a … Continue reading →

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Easter on ice, 2013

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Kathy

Picture this. Ice fishing over 280 feet of water on Lake Superior. Floating on 18 inches of ice.  Convinced by husband to leave warm house on Easter morning. No one else on ice, except one lone snowmobiler. Everyone else at … Continue reading →

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“Flat Stanley, do you want to go ice fishing on Lake Superior?”

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Kathy

Last week I opened the mailbox to discover a long white envelope with a return address from Connecticut. It was from an Internet friend, Susan, whose fourth grade students are learning about watersheds and how they can positively impact our … Continue reading →

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