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  • Of Trees and Roots and Names of Things

    When my grandpa Averill bought property on Wolf Lake in the Irish Hills of Michigan in the early 40s, he picked the choice lot for himself, and then parceled out smaller lots along the lake edge in a little barony he named “Averill’s Basswood Terrace”. (My grandpa liked to see…

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  • About sculpture class

    This is the moth I found on some rusty metal out behind the sculpture building, where “our” big kilns are. It had some spooky, fascinating…

  • Wave Field

    The sculpture class met at University of MIchigan’s campus one day to see the sculpture there. This is “Wave Field” by Maya Linn, the woman…

  • The boys are still at scout camp.

    This is a photo we took Wednesday, when we went for family night. The first part of the week, I was truly not thinking much…

  • Jeff and Molly

    At the Order of the Arrow ceremony, where the ceremonial rituals were racing the thunderstorm…