Sledding with Liam

Sledding with Liam I Photographer: Grandma Mike and I took Ceiri and Liam with us to Lakenenland last weekend. I loved watching my daughter play with my grandson. The blues were beautiful that day and we were all smiling on Saturday. Sledding with Liam II Photographer: Grandma Liam works hard. But look closely, Momma is working harder. [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day

This morning is blue-grey as I wait for the sun to rise. The brightest splash of color in the backyard is the stained wood on the birdfeeders. It feels cold after the relatively warm temps of February’s Thaw. The return to winter always seems cruel but I know it will snow for at least two [...]

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The Flu of Heightened Senses

With The Thaw came The Flu for my family members. They have all the usual symptoms. Me? I have “the flu of heightened senses” and the world’s worst headache. When Mike went outside to retrieve the mail in came the ODOR of stinky wood smoke! Just what is the neighbor burning anyway? The wet STINKY [...]

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The February Thaw

It has to be 41 (degrees Fahrenheit) outside! I ventured out for soup makings. Mike has the flu and I am not far behind him. I have been fighting this off for a week. But in my line of work you come up against virals and nasty bugs on a regular basis. But when clinics [...]

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Damp ‘n Under the Weather

I remember when a day came along that was damp, snows thawing, and I was under-the-weather, a pot of homemade soup and a cozy blanket was enough. There might have been a stack of books, a journal, and re-runs of Star War movies playing on the tube. But I am driven today and I was [...]

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Thill’s Meditation

Thill’s revisited, or should I say I went back into the folder, pulled some more images into Photoshop, ’cause those brown boxes in the face of white and gray made me warm. Those boxes–would they get ruined by the coming snows? Why do they say “seafood”? Why have I never shopped at Thill’s? I went [...]

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Benched

Sad that I cannot visit Ishpeming today and sit in my favorite park with one of my companions and watch the frozen world of the Upper Peninsula. I am benched. Home. Winter is rough on cars and mine has blown a head gasket. The expense is great. As many of you know I do home [...]

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Stilled by Weather

I spent my morning listening to sleet and snow pelt the skylight while reading about the adventures of an online friend in Panama. Next to me sits a list of goals and wishes that I want to bring forth in the coming year. And I remind myself the one thing I have no control over [...]

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Coming Soon

A Winter Journal, Notes from the Upper Peninsula will be a nature journal, a place to practice my craft, but more-so a place to cope with winter of which I am not fond. My hopes are to better my writing, photography and get through the season with less symptoms of seasonal affective disorder. Winter in [...]

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