The Northern Great Lakes Region is such an inspiration for my happy art. I drove about an hour or so to the Boyne City Art Gallery the other day. What a great place! Boyne City has a ski resort and a really big, beautiful recreational lake and an active downtown with lots of yummy restaurants. (Yes, even European cuisine.) The people I met were so intelligent, so easy-going, and so nice. Oh, and let me also mention the low to no crime rate. It’s so delightful to be surrounded by super nice people and be able to walk the downtown streets and feel so safe!