Long Lake Yarns

On a perfect spring or summer day, when everything is perky and bright anyway, rainbows are just the frosting on the cake. Very yummy but sort of more than you need. But once fall really gets going, it’s way different. It’s been raining for days and days now. You feel, in your bones, how cold [...]

Meet the lowly meadow vole. Microtus Pennsylvanicus. (And I have no idea what Pennsylvania has to do with it.) The meadow vole can birth up to fifteen litters a year. Litters average about seven pups. Female offspring are ready to birth their own litters in three weeks. (That “three” is not a typo.) A mother [...]

It’s drop dead beautiful here. The science of fall colors doesn’t seem to be much of a science. But wet weather followed by cold weather followed by very wet weather followed by very warm weather must have been the ticket. This is just a taste of Montmorency County at its showiest. The maples are especially [...]

That’s me paddling with five, yes five, loons. We had no loon chicks hatch on the lake this summer. Early rumor was one hatched, but we think not. We know at least one pair was nesting on Belly Button Island when a major tornado-like blow blew through. Shortly after, the nest was abandoned. It is [...]

In the right chair, especially on a chilly night, Hoover can be quite the knitting companion. Sometimes he drapes himself like a warm shawl collar around my neck. No wonder I need to inspect my knitting under a bright Ott-Lite to avoid the “knitting with cat hair” thing.