Woman, nor beast
Our place near Cheboygan, on northern Lake Huron, was in the bullseye of the winter storm that buried the Great Lakes in recent days.
Our neighbor on the lake - a year-round resident - texted me this photo of the view out her front door.
This is the same woman who, during last winter's ice storm, went 12 days without electricity. That was, by the way, her first year of living on the lake.
The power outage was preferable, she said, to the "immeasurable amounts of snow" that forced her to crawl through a window just to escape her house.
"Even my St. Bernard's don't want to be outside," she wrote.

















