Category Archives: Lake Leelanau (the lake)
Vol XVIII – #4 – Day Before the Big Snow
Vol XVIII – #3 – Easter Sun/Snow Day!
“April is the cruelest month…” T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land Twelve days past Vernal Equinox 2018 and the sun is rising a little more north of due east. The Northern Hemisphere was insolated just a little more than it was yesterday, although standing out on a frozen lake at sunrise today you would want to be a little more insulated. The sun… Read more »
Vol XVIII – #2 – Into the Past
Report today by Jim. Erhardt Peters walked out onto a snowy Lake Leelanau around 100 years ago (roughly) and took a photo of Maronook, the stately summer residence of Walter Truman Best aka “Maro the Magician” and his wife Allie May Kaiser. Maro died in 1908 at age 39, so at the time this photo was taken, it was probably… Read more »
Vol XVII – #316 – Which Way is the Beach ?
Vol XVII – #315 – I See Ice
Vol XVII – #314 – Sunset
Vol XVII – #313 – Blue Sky and Beautiful Clouds
Vol XVII – #312 – Gone Fishin, There’s a Sign upon the Door
Vol XVII – #311 – Fishtown Winter
I want to wish my son James Burnham a Happy 50th Birthday. It has been so far, a real Winter this year, not the snowiest or coldest, just day after day Winter. With the exception of 5 days that the temperature was above 35 and 40 that melted the first 2 months of snowfall, it has been cold and snowy. We… Read more »