Tag Archives: Milwaukee

Little Free Library (#4) – Haunted Schoolhouse

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

This “schoolhouse” mini-library asks that people leave only children’s books for others to borrow. Right now the library box is decorated for Halloween, so you can’t see it very well  beneath the cottony spider webbing—but there’s a school bell up in … Continue reading →

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Straight Narrow Way Missionary Bible Church

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Pabst, Schlitz, and Blatz—all former local Milwaukee breweries that gave Miller (also a Milwaukee brewery) plenty of competition in their day—once constructed their own saloons/taverns as outlets for selling their beer. You can still find these old taverns scattered around Milwaukee, largely repurposed … Continue reading →

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Little Free Library (#3) – “Miss Kris”

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Saw this mini-library box on my way to work and had to get a picture. Don’t you love the shushing librarian, “Miss Kris,” at her desk safeguarding the “stacks”? Very imaginative!

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Little Free Library (#2)

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

A couple years ago—hard to believe I’ve been blogging that long!—I wrote a post on the Little Free Library phenomenon.  (Here’s the link to that post if you’d like to read it: https://katherinewikoff.com/2012/06/29/little-free-library/) I’ve been meaning to follow up that post … Continue reading →

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Misty Lake Michigan and S/V Denis Sullivan

Posted on July 11, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Although Lake Michigan in this photo looks similar to a photo in a post about two months ago, the two days couldn’t have been more different. Whereas that photo (below) was snapped on a cool, blustery day (complete with a cargo ship … Continue reading →

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Two Steeples

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Found this photo just now while cleaning out the “Camera Roll” in my iPhone. I don’t remember taking this picture and have no idea why I did. But I like it, so thought I’d share it with you 😄

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Update on that ship in my last post

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

After I put up my Saturday photo of Lake Michigan, my friend Jo, who lives on the lakefront downtown, told me that ship in the picture had been anchored there all week. Apparently the ship has been the topic of much conversation the past several … Continue reading →

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Lake Michigan, on a blustery end-of-May day

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

I had lunch today with my writing group at one member’s residence on Prospect Avenue overlooking Lake Michigan. In January I took a photo from the bluff, braving bitterly cold wind without gloves for the few seconds it took to snap … Continue reading →

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Sixth Street Viaduct

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

I took this photo of the Sixth Street Viaduct over Milwaukee’s Menomonee Valley while waiting to cross the street after dropping my younger daughter off at the train station this morning.  She caught the 8:05 Amtrak Hiawatha for a field trip with her art history classmates … Continue reading →

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M&I / BMO

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

This is the kind of thing my grandparents used to do: refer to places by their names from 50 years earlier.  Now I do it, too.  No doubt someday my kids will, too. The building below is the Marshall & … Continue reading →

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