Sweep

Time to spruce up the Cabin.

Grab a broom and sweep the pine needles from the front step and pathway. Round up the usual winter squatters... gently, please...

... and encourage them to find their summer quarters eleswhere.

Offer a little tobacco to the Laughing Manitou - the spirit which watches over the place.

Summer has begun...

Promise

I was inspired by a correspondent to post this picture of a young Ernest Hemingway fishing in Walloon Lake in 1904. (Credit: Photograph in the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.)

Interpret it, if you please, as a promise of the summer to come.