Interlochen

September 11-15  

In Interlochen and Traverse City, we visited with friends and family.  This is “DeYoung” country.  Dutch immigrants settled in northwest Michigan and you can see this ancestry in the garden sculpture—kissing figures with wooden shoes and miniature windmills are everywhere.  We also took the circle tour around the Leelanau Peninsula—a beautiful drive through small farms and vineyards and Lakes Michigan and Leelenau and Sleeping Bear Dunes.

The local produce is celebrated and the area attracts many visitors. There are many very good restaurants in this area.  We really enjoyed Patisserie Amie with a dear friend from my childhood.   


This charming restaurant’s motto is in French, which if I am correct means “tell me what you eat and I will tell you what will kill you.”  


Can this possibly be right?  [Emily, help me out here!]  

Don’s mom lives on a grass airstrip.   It no longer provides very many opportunities to view small planes (the residents are elderly and no longer do much flying).  

Don’s brother flew his RC 40% lifesize airplane for us on the airstrip. 

It is in the country and you can walk for miles along the airstrip and into the woods.
  

Boomer amid the dew dappled spider webs

Normally completely invisible, 

the sun on the dew drops shows them

We took the dogs and found a small turnip patch, which was obviously being enjoyed by the local wildlife, and a Lincoln Continental graveyard.  This wooded area is fairly remote and local residents have, apparently, taken advantage by abandoning old automobiles.  There must have been a dozen, all old land yachts from the 60’s.  And four of them—lined up nicely together—were identical Lincoln Continentals.