Month: July 2024

Decades ago, while visiting Daughter Number One in Wyoming, I bought a pair of earrings from the artist who’d made them.  I admired the elegant curves and sculptural quality of his work.  So did he.  “Syncline and anticline,” he said, pointing to specific parts of the jewelry.       A syncline, he told me, is a… Continue reading Syncline, Anticline

The Ann Arbor Art Fair starts today.  It’s a big deal—the largest in the country–a juried show with a thousand artists that attracts half a million art lovers a year.  It’s also known for featuring the worst weather of the summer.       You don’t know which type of terrible weather will happen, but you can… Continue reading Art-Fair Weather

Daughter Number Two has been off on an adventure.  With a small group of friends who’ve gone camping together for years, she’s been camping on Isle Royale.  Isle Royale is the main island in an archipelago of some four hundred fifty islands in Lake Superior.  Although the archipelago is closer to Minnesota, it sits within… Continue reading Isle Royale

Shrieks and laughter told Sue and me that today was a busy day on the Huron River, even before we could see the water through the trees.  People were clearly having a fine time, both on the main body of the river and on the Argo Cascades.  The Cascades is a series of nine gentle… Continue reading All in the Wrist