Category Archives: Milwaukee

Grohmann Museum – Twilight, November Drizzle

Posted on November 30, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Photo of a streetlight shining through raindrops on the glass canopy over the entrance to the Grohmann Museum, taken as I left work late this afternoon.

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The Kindness of Strangers: Lost and Found

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Some kind soul found this necklace and placed it in a spot where its owner might be more likely to find it. When my daughter lost her favorite stuffed animal in the grocery store years ago, someone did the same … Continue reading →

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Carved in Stone . . .

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

. . . is no guarantee of permanence, as you can see. The carpenters’ union apparently found another home, and their building eventually became a place of support for a new group of people.

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Calatrava Interior, Late Afternoon on a Sunny Day

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Early September at the Milwaukee Art Museum with the brise soleil unfurled.

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Dontre Hamilton: “Rest in Power”

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

In making the wide circuit back to my office after running an errand on the other side of campus, I decided to swing through Red Arrow Park to pick up a sandwich for lunch at Starbucks. And this is what … Continue reading →

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Light Ricochet

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

It seems the busier I get in my real life, the more difficult it becomes to produce text-heavy blog posts. Language is my living, and I appear to be using up all my vocabulary at work. Words elude me when I’m … Continue reading →

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Rimmed by Light

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Taken with my iPhone this morning on my way to work. Very grainy, I know (there’s only so “close-up” you can get with a phone!), but I loved the sharp rims of white sunlight along the eastern edge of City Hall’s … Continue reading →

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A lovely, dreary day at Milwaukee’s lakefront

Posted on October 24, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

I had lunch at the Milwaukee Art Museum’s restaurant today with a group of dear, old friends (going on 25 years!): Jo, Kathleen, and Karen. The restaurant is a well-kept secret. Well, maybe not that secret, but I’m a museum … Continue reading →

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The Two Towers

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Neither Orthanc nor Barad-dûr. nor Cirith Ungol, nor Minas Tirith, nor even Minas Morgul. Nope, this is Milwaukee’s City Hall. Again 🙂  

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Mark Rothko “Orange and Yellow” with Woman in Jade Green

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

While visiting the “Van Gogh to Pollock: Modern Rebels” show at the Milwaukee Art Museum several weeks ago, I was sitting on a bench about twenty feet away from this painting by Mark Rothko (“Orange and Yellow,” 1956) when a woman … Continue reading →

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