Fishtown!

Here's a shot of the family (minus photographer hubby) whilst lunching in beautiful Fishtown, Michigan. It looks like we are out East but, for those in the know, we are steps away from Lake Michigan, in the town of Leland. I love the smell that still hangs in the air of fish being smoked to perfection. Yum! In fact, we were all enjoying some smoked white fish pate.

Double yum!

Love it here.
http://www.thecoveleland.com/livevideo.html Check it out for a live view of this place. And you can play with the camera!

Indian Princesses aside

I've been reading...and reading. Here is a list of what's been in my hands the last month or so....

"Send Yourself Roses : Thoughts on my life, loves and leading roles" by Kathleen Turner
"Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World" by Rita Golden Gelman
"In the Frame : My Life in Words and Pictures" by Helen Mirren
"Becoming Strangers" by Louise Dean
"The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards
"Mary Martin, Broadway Legend" by Ronald L. Davis
"The Slow Moon" by Elizabeth Cox
"The Rug Merchant" by Meg Mullins

Ms. Turner's book was very interesting and open. It's a fast read and it's a little pompous but she has been around the block and these stories prove it!
Ms. Gelman's book was FABULOUS and based on her unusual life. Really cool and I loved it!
Ms. Mirren's book is very good and there are some wonderful ( dare I say frame-able?) photos of her in it. Whew!
Ms. Dean's book was tiresome.
Ms. Edward's book was really, really good and very unusual.
The bio by Mr. Davis was very good. Mary Martin was a very simple person surrounded by complications and others to deal with it for her. Bizarre.
Ms. Cox's book was very good and I really enjoyed the story and the descriptiveness of her style. Ms. Mullins book is very good and very rich although it ends very softly.....poof.

My nose has, very happily, been buried and, soon enough, I'll have to return to demanding schedules and no time left to ponder.

Damn!

My Girl

She can drive a boat AND a two wheel bike!!!!!!!

This just in....

My daughter rode a bike for the first time tonight! WITHOUT TRAINING WHEELS!!!!

My Summer Vacation...so far

This first shot is the clan getting ready to chomp down on pizza from the local grocery...way good it was!!! You are looking at the inside of a (circa 1940's) Quonset hut. Notice the sloping wall? The cottage looks like a tin can on it's side. It's a great place to be in a thunder storm! The rain sounds amazing on the roof!! Above Mal's head is an old photo of Long Lake.

Here we are in Leland. This is the fourth summer photo we have taken, in this spot, with the three of us. We love it here.

We had a chance to get onto the lake and tool around in a pontoon and Mallie got to drive! That's my honey above, looking over "his" lake.

This lovely photo is a summer dinner table. Very Martha-ish, eh? This is at my hubby's cousins' home just down the lake from us. This 1880's house has a lovely enclosed porch perfect for family dinners and late night games. We had a great dinner of country ham and all the fixings. Later, we played "Apples to Apples" and hooted and hollered till late in the evening.

Sigh. It's hard to leave the lake.

Side note.....

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Late night musing....

(Late night shot of the lovely Thames, taken by my significant other)


Summer....the end of schedules, as we know it. Weird. If I stay up past 1a.m. I am up for the duration. I get my second wind, my cats' eye. It's 1:47a.m.

It's quiet. My child is asleep. My husband is out of town and I feel a bit ...disconnected without him around. Going to bed without him next to me is....not restful, not soothing. Just sleep.

I've been on a late night marathon, these last two nights, of "Big Love" and "The L Word".

What a combo, eh?

I put Mal to sleep and then slip into this weird couple of shows that bear little resemblance to each other - except that they speak to worlds your average Joe doesn't relate to or know about. I find both fascinating.

I guess it's my Observer peeking out.

I've been on a heavy reading kick. Three biographies in the last two weeks. Kathleen Turner, Helen Mirren and Mary Martin. Novels too are cluttering my brain... At least 5 in the last 3 weeks time. It's like Summer hits and I just want to exit my world and enter someone else's space. I have really been ripping through. The last novel was called "The Memory Keepers' Daughter". Very good and very intense. The others.....I have no memory for titles ordinarily. I'll have to make a list of the ones I've been through. Throw in 2 of the Chronicles of Narnia and you get the picture.

What does this mean, do you suppose? I have time on my hands? Right now, yes. Am I avoiding all the gardening I need to do or the house cleaning or the prep. for some gig? Could be.

Who knows?

Song cue.