Reflections

Reflections - Life on the Lake

The View From the Cottage

You’re fortunate if the first thing you see every morning is a lake.
Winter Roads illustration

Winter Roads

Winter isn’t exactly the high time for outdoor weddings in Michigan, but they aren’t uncommon in wine country, no doubt because vineyards are such picturesque places, even when blanketed with snow.
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The Color of Water

“To paint water in all its perfection is as impossible as to paint the soul.”
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Night of the Aurora

Night of the Aurora: This was not true wilderness, but to Aaron — 11 years old and hungry for adventure — this was wild as Borneo. - By Jerry Dennis
Traverse City

My Bay Life

The bay permeates the Wills and Dennis families in so many ways that a guy could spend his golden years tracing those golden threads.
Steelhead

The Color of Steelhead

When they enter a river they drag some of the ocean’s mystery with them.
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The rules of cottage living

Not long ago I spent a year living in other people’s cottages. There were nine of them in all, each on or very near the Great Lakes, extending from the Minnesota shore of Lake Superior in the west to the New York shore of Lake Ontario in the east. They varied a great deal in design, from an 80-year-old log cabin to a summer home so new there was still sawdust on the ground to what can only be described as a mansion, but I noticed some shared qualities.
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Season of Snow and Books

Filling notebooks that winter with clumsy sentences struggling to be true was the first significant act of my adulthood.
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A bite in the air

A bite in the air after the frivolous fun of summer, it feels good to get serious. This is the best season in Michigan, these weeks of brisk air and Halloween colors, of sudden rain rattling against the windows and wet leaves plastered on the sidewalk.
Photo of the morning woods by Dwight Nadig

Getting Lost

Opportunities for adventure are endless, and you don’t need to go far to find it so get lost in the wild countryside of Michigan.

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