My painting for today is Round Island Light. It stands sentinel in the Straights of Mackinaw where the sun daubed skies of dusk and dawn glow a golden orange.
May Painting for Today
lighthouses
Monarch Rest Stop
Tawas Point Lighthouse
On September first we laid over with the Monarch butterflies on the shores of Lake Huron for a book signing event next to the Tawas Point Lighthouse. When we arrived the weather was warm with a hazy sun and light winds. Continue reading
9/01/18
From Hale to Paradise
This year the Michigan Lighthouse Festival was held in Paradise, Michigan, and living not to distant from Hale, Michigan, this trip was dubbed the Hale to Paradise trip. Paradise is about fifteen miles short of the shores of Lake Superior, where we were scheduled to have a vendor space at the Community Center for the Festival.
Upcoming Event
Like a Big Ship I have been from one side of the country to the other this summer. I have spent little time looking at a computer screen, instead I have been restarting old ventures and getting our books into brick and mortars. It is hard work and requires a lot of travel. Continue reading
Reviewers wanted for short and free children’s book
FREE from Midnight to Midnight Friday 8/17
We need reviews on Amazon for this book. The paperback is selling very well at Michigan Lighthouse and Museum Stores. Here is the link to the ebook on Amazon. I know it is not the same as hardcopy, but it will enable you to review the book and get us noticed on Amazon.
Link to the ebook on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2Ln9guT
Just click buy now and it will be free from midnight to midnight 8/17
IF I WERE A LIGHTHOUSE is a rhyme for young readers about the duties and purposes of Great Lakes lighthouses. This is a children’s picture book that is both informative and fun with its rhyming poem for kids on the subject of shipping and lighthouses in Michigan. This is book 9 in the Rhyme for Young Readers Series by QuickTurtle Books®.
I Think I Was HIT BY LIGHTNING
Painting by Richard Rensberry Continue reading
Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers
The Gift Shop at Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse of Mackinaw City now carries our QuickTurtle Books®: BIG SHIPS and IF I WERE A LIGHTHOUSE.
The lighthouse is located on the northern most point of lower Michigan with a spectacular view of the Mackinac Bridge crossing to the Upper Peninsula. Continue reading
Tourist Season
Paws for Fun and True North Books of Mackinaw City now carries three of our Continue reading
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