Judy Smith:  

Since graduating from HH in 1976, I have been fortunate enough to live in and experience two of the most exquisite areas of Northwestern Michigan - the Spring Lake/Grand Haven/Holland region for 5 years, and Traverse City since 1986! The year after moving to TC I was blessed with a son, Nicholas, now 23, from my first marriage of 12 1/2 years. After 8 full years of single-hood, I met the "love of my life" AND "every woman's dream & then some", in June 2001. We married just 6 months later. Unfortunately, immediately after uniting as one, this relationship went from heavenly bliss to hell on earth and dissolved just short of 3 years. Since Thanksgiving of 1989, I have lived in the same soon to be 62-year-old up-north summer cottage that was added onto and upgraded with heat in 1968. Beechwood Cliff is a seasoned but quaint subdivision of just 15 homes on a quiet rural cul-de-sac. Six of these residences sit along a bluff overlooking East Grand Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan. Beechwood Cliff is located just 10 miles north of downtown Traverse City and six miles South of Elk Rapids, but only 1 mile from LochenHeath, a prestigious, guard gated waterfront golf community that is under development in what has been called "America's Summer Golf Capital", the first private residential development (644 acres) of its kind in the Midwest. In addition, Beechwood Cliff is less than three miles from the renowned Grand Traverse Resort in Acme. My little piece of paradise consists of a 3 bedroom, 1 bath, 1,650 sq. foot flat roofed L-shaped ranch house with floor to ceiling glass windows that overlook East Grand Traverse Bay. My home sits on an almost two-acre park-like parcel with over 50 White Birch, a dozen mature Blue Spruce, and countless Beech, Maple, and even a few Ironwood trees, plus it has a detached two-plus-two car garage. It is situated on the back corner of the largest lot in Beechwood Cliff and is accessed on the curve of the road allowing for total bay/f...Expand for more