Long Lake Yarns

Just when you think that this lake can’t come up with another “best of…,” it surprises you. This is not photo-shopped. This fake-looking sunset is real. Just like my eyeballs saw it. The dock is out of the water. The kayaks are packed away. Summer people are off doing whatever. The lake is quiet. The [...]

I was born and raised in Michigan, so it’s not like I know the day-to-day details of weather anywhere else.  But to my taste, it doesn’t get any better than experiencing the changing of the seasons in my home state.  These sunset photos were taken on April 2, 2010, about 30 minutes apart, just a [...]

It hasn’t been a rough winter so far.  No extremes of temperature.  Less than the usual amount of snow.  But it is still late January and there are months of wintry weather behind and ahead.  The lake is beautiful, in its wintry ways. Somehow the snow pulls both sides of the lake more toward the [...]

The sunsets on Hillman’s Long Lake are most often beautiful in an understated way.  Yellows and delicate oranges melt into the almost night  shadows.  About now the fishermen would mostly be off the lake.  My dad would have stayed out a little later, though, trolling for bass in the shallows until night settled in.

You look at the flames of your little firepit.  You look at the sky and the sky reflected in the lake.  Everything rattling around inside your head quiets.   Soon we’ll spot the first bat of the night.