Spikehorn Meyers

I discovered Spikehorn Meyers this week in an old travel-film clip my grandma sent me

It’s really cool to see mid-century footage of my home here in Traverse City and the Sleeping Bear Dunes, but Ol’ Spikehorn steals the show.

He seems like a guy I’d want to know… or maybe even a guy I might have become…

Spikehorn said that the company of bears was much preferable to that of other people… he might be right, but I guess I’m lucky that I haven’t yet become so cynical about people that I’ve taken to avoiding them altogether…

I was hoping to check out the biography from my local library, but I haven’t had time… each nugget of  information I scrounged up online just made Spikehorn more and more interesting though…

like when he made national news in 1945 after sending wires to Truman, Atlee and Stalin announcing a personal offer of $50K for the capture of Adolph Hitler.

I like him…

Photo from Don Harrison’s Up North Memories Flickr collection. I thought some color might give it a little life.

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Handmade Baby Cardigan and Other New Items

I think this Baby Cardigan from Buckets of Moonbeams is really super-fantastic.

I keep trying to get my wife to raise her prices, but she thinks anything she creates should be affordable to anyone… not just the super-rich.

(we define super-rich as anyone with a regular salary)

I think that is quite honorable.

She’s been working like mad on custom orders lately, so new items in the shop have been delayed until now. If you’re interested in a custom order (like a sold shop item or color variation) you can contact Noël via her Etsy shop.

All her new items are super-cool, beautiful and well-constructed.

Check them out today before they are gone!

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Haunted State Hospital

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It is starting to smell like winter outside.

So I took advantage of some unusually nice weather and shot some photos at Grand Traverse Commons.

The old state mental hospital.

Some say it is haunted.

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