Grand Traverse Bay Region

The main house (my grandmother's place), with "Doug", "Debbie", and "Mark" (and possibly "Terry") cabins behind it to the right, August 1999. Note the swingset to the right, which is still intact and the same color almost thirty years later. Oddly, I don't remember there being two birch trees in front of the house where those stumps are, just one huge oak stump at the center of an enormous growth of some kind of creeping vine.

My brother's new English springer spaniel puppy.

A flock of turkeys outside the dining room window - just before Thanksgiving dinner.

Molly watching the turkeys intently.

This is why I got stuck overnight in Milwaukee.

After a bumpy ride to Manistee.

Watching every plane but mine take off as I sat stranded in Milwaukee's airport before Christmas.

National Guard planes (tankers?) neatly parked across the tarmac at Milwaukee's airport.

Outside the Manistee airport, about twenty minutes after I flew in from Milwaukee. No wonder the last ten minutes of the flight were so bumpy.