It’s always good to be in good company.
Once again, Traverse City is being listed as one of the places you ought to see before you die – and so have our neighbors on the Leelanau Peninsula.
Tag - National Cherry Festival
Walking in the Cherry Royale Parade -- yeah, that's me under the big beach ball.
By MIKE NORTON
Saturday was the final day of the 2013 National Cherry Festival – the day traditionally set aside for the enormous Cherry Royale Parade, where 150 floats, bands and marching units file past
Ripening cherries above Grand Traverse Bay
By MIKE NORTON
It’s amazing what a few days of good, hot summer weather can do.
For weeks, Traverse City’s cherry crop has been languishing on the trees – small, green and hard -- thanks to a long, cold spring that has kept the fruit from ripening.
Walking on the new Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail near the Dune Climb
By MIKE NORTON
That was a great Cherry Festival week! Perfect weather, great events and really smooth coordination. But now I’m ready for some peaceful time alone with Mother Nature and away from other human beings.
If you’re
Photo by Tommy Lee Byrd, The Great Race A vintage Packard ambles down a rural road during the 2011 Great Race, which went from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Bennington, Vermont. By MIKE NORTON What a strange month March is! Last Sunday, we were reading by candlelight and huddling around the fireplace
