Our day began in the early morning darkness. Joe and Nels were busy with getting the final turkeys ready for delivery tomorrow. Leland’s one and a half inches of snow disappeared overnight. Click here to enter the 2016 Snow Gauge contest! Win a custom Leif Spork tile!
The wind rules again today and the lights are flickering. We are on our way to the Big City By the Bay.
Another summertime day,
Hello… It’s Autumn again, summer in November can’t last forever.
Not only a beautiful morning… but, Oh what a beautiful day. It certainly was a top down day, unfortunately, not feasible for top off.
A blustery, cloudy beginning. Not many people in town and Fishtown was empty. Only stores open were Carlson’s Fish Shanty and Larry at the Shoe Store. We are back on Standard Time and I hope there is a movement to get rid of DST sometime in the future.
A very nice morning, quiet and calm at Van’s Beach. Surveyors determining the lake level, taking advantage of the flatness. Beautiful Fall color muted a bit by the light overcast. Fishtown is closing down with the exception of Reflections, Leif’s Tile Shop and Carlson’s Fish Shanty.
A beautiful beginning to a colorful day. The color is at peak along the shoreline but not as brilliant as in past years. This weekend should be good for touring but for the rain predicted for Saturday.
Not as nice as yesterday, but not the worst. Another one of those “little bit of everything” days with some raindrops in the AM, sunshine at noon and overcast to mostly cloudy later. Leelanau County is reaching peak color this weekend with temperatures in the mid fifties, sunshine Thursday thru Saturday. Possible showers Saturday PM.
A perfect fall day, complete with wind blowing leaves every which way, and not too cold. It started out with a pre-dawn line-up of Venus, Jupiter, and Mars. At sunset last night, the freighter Great Lakes Trader and tug Joyce L. VanEnkevort moved slowly through the Manitou Passage. Same place, 24 hours earlier – windy, wavy, and chilly, with a hundred… Read more »