Spring

Intergenerational efforts bring blooms to Downtown

Even with the chilly spring mornings in Northern Michigan, nature always finds a way to bloom, and here in lovely Petoskey, we’re lucky enough to have intergenerational efforts ready to aid Mother Nature. Now that the spring season appears to …

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Downtown Fun this St. Patrick’s Day Weekend

St. Patrick’s Day is a holiday in which good times, good fun, and impish antics are encouraged and enjoyed by all, regardless of one’s family heritage—after all, we’re all Irish on this Saint’s Day! March 17 began as a religious …

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Pennsylvania Park after a storm

And then the wind…

The July heat finally brought the storms, and the gentle rain began marauding into sideways sheets of water. An eerie quiet, then the alarms, and then it happened. Within minutes of the expired tornado warning, another storm ripped through Petoskey; …

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A statue to Ernest Hemingway in a park in Petoskey, Michigan

A Soft Rain in May

May 8, 2019 There’s a soft rain today quenching the thirst of the yellow daffodils, pink and red tulips, purple pansies, and the fresh spring grass. Renewal is all around us, here, in Petoskey, with the warmth and breadth of …

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Overlooking the Little Traverse Bay at sunset

“The Yawning that is Spring”

April 17, 2019 Ralph Waldo Emerson once contemplated: If I go into the forest, I find all new and undescribed. Ralph Waldo Emerson Awaiting the new and undescribed, Spring is yawning to resume the warmth we love and the leftover …

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