オーク、マープル、ホワイトパインの下に居心地の良いコテージ

I have spent nearly every summer somewhere along the Lake Michigan shore. My husband grew up near a lake in Up-State New York. We both are community college professors who believe people need to get away from their daily work and come to the woods. We are amateur naturalists, and enjoy learning about the dunal woods and it's inhabitants.

We have always wanted a cottage within driving distance from our home down state. I dreamed of being further north, but if we were going to spend time at our little cottage, we knew it needed to be close. Michigana Shores is beautiful. We like the quiet, the proximity to the lake, the tennis courts nearby and places to cross-country ski. We like that there is canoeing and hiking nearby. We like what we have come to call "cottage time" that we enter once we arrive.

We fell in love with this little cottage because of it's location, our neighbors and because this cottage had been well taken-care of. The wood floors glow, the modern kitchen and baths are nicer than what we have at home, the comfortable beds, the nights that cool down in the summer, and the snow in the winter! There can be so much unreported lake effect snow--all said this was a place where we could be comfortable.