Category Archives: Milwaukee

The Milwaukee (Library) Lion

Posted on July 23, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

In talking about my “Carnage at the old Washington Park Zoo” post over dinner last week with my friend and fellow blogger Karen Spivey, we started to reminisce about Milwaukee and its close relationships with favorite animals. For example, consider Samson … Continue reading →

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Carnage at the old Washington Park Zoo

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

I was doing research on something else today when I came across a Milwaukee Public Library blog post from October 2015 about a whole slew of bear deaths/killings in a mixed species/order exhibit at the old Washington Park Zoo from … Continue reading →

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New Milwaukee Bucks Arena – Entrance at Juneau and 6th

Posted on July 13, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

Progress on the new Milwaukee Bucks arena (official name: Wisconsin Entertainment and Sports Center, or WESC, Wikipedia article here) has been slow but steady. Here’s what appears to be an entrance to the complex at the corner of Juneau Avenue … Continue reading →

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Color and Composition

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

I liked the sudden coalescence of color and composition that caught my eye while I was walking down the hill to Starbucks this morning.

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Fog rolling in off Lake Michigan

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

A foggy start to the day in Milwaukee yesterday morning. Looking east up State Street from the Grohmann Museum.

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Hemmed in, but still a beacon

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

For decades Milwaukee’s favorite weather forecast has been the flame atop the Wisconsin Gas Building. It changes color and flashes to announce rising/falling temperatures, snow/rain, or a steady state (no change from current conditions). There’s even a little poem to … Continue reading →

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New Milwaukee Bucks arena changes color as light shifts

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

Street construction on my usual route to work has me driving past the new Milwaukee Bucks arena from different directions and at different times of day than usual. These literal shifts in perspective have led me to discover something kind … Continue reading →

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Random photos from yesterday

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

I’ve been super busy trying to keep up with midterms and paper grading this week while also mourning the death of my sister-in-law, so obviously no blog posts lately. But I took a few photos yesterday of things encountered as I … Continue reading →

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A Reminder: Count Your Blessings

Posted on April 14, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

Every time I drive past this burnt-out house, it serves as a stark reminder that bad things can happen to any of us at any time. It’s too easy to focus on what’s not going right in my life. Seeing … Continue reading →

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The “Kicker”

Posted on April 11, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

I couldn’t think of a good title for this post (“Cement and Metal”???) until I circled back to the one detail that had caught my eye in the first place and made this a photo worth snapping. Because I’m teaching … Continue reading →

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