Tall white pines and oaks arch over a quiet cement path winding past rustic brown-shingled cottages in this sun-dappled chrome-era view of Big Star Lake near Baldwin, Michigan — a classic mid-century summer resort scene that evokes lazy afternoons of swimming, boating, and fishing in the heart of Lake County. The card's publisher, Avery Color Studios of Saranac, Michigan, captured the gentle domesticity of cottage country that drew Midwestern families north each summer, and in 1968 Ethel dashed off a cheerful note in red ink to her friend Pearl in Attica, Indiana: "Hi Pearl — Came up here Sunday afternoon, got here in good time, be seeing you." The 6¢ Franklin D. Roosevelt stamp, its wavy cancel still legible, completes a perfectly preserved time capsule of postwar American leisure.