Merry Christmas….
We awoke this morning to 4 inches of the first snow of the season…yea…At least a white Christmas is guaranteed and the brown grass and pine needles are covered up. I hope everyone has a relaxed  Christmas and enjoys all of the festivities….a reminder of the New Years Eve, sunset [...]

I don’t know where they are, but I do know where they aren’t.  I built a new feeding station here at the house in hopes of getting some good, Winter, bird pictures….In three weeks I haven’t seen a single bird of any flavor…(unless you count the pictured, fur bearing, bird…) I [...]

Good evening,
Still no snow here in Frankfort, but the wind is back again…This is the fourth or fifth time this Fall of 35mph+……The ski areas were making snow this past week and are open.  The sand picture is either part of the Grand Canyon or eroded, frozen sand, down by the harbor. [...]

Just an interesting cloud formation and color….   Be well,  Jay

I was out walking the Betsie Valley Trail the other morning, near Railroad Point and went down to the new DNR boat launch on Crystal Lake.  I hadn’t  seen the actual launch site before.  The upper parking area has been visible for a year or so. The site is well designed and [...]

Non-Winter continues to favor us with mild temps and none of the nameless white stuff…We’ve had several wind events in the past few weeks but the daytime highs are quite pleasant, compared to our normal highs.  I just hope we don’t end up getting slammed later in the Winter…..I was out [...]

Have a pleasant Thanksgiving with all the food and family that goes with it.  Nice mild weather here, so the grandchildren aren’t housebound for the whole day.  ( I’m tempted “Here’s a butterfly net, go out in the woods and catch a turkey for diner”. They would probably be back by [...]