Tag Archives: Milwaukee

Venus and Crescent Moon over Milwaukee

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

I wish I also could have gotten Red Arrow Park’s ice skating rink at the bottom of this photo, but it was windy and cold, and I was walking to my parking garage after work. Plus this was the first … Continue reading →

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Waiting (for the elevator)

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

A photo I took the other day as I was walking to the printer. It’s a view looking through the glass walls of the elevator shaft into the atrium of the Grohmann Museum in Milwaukee. The strong vertical lines and … Continue reading →

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Awaiting Restoration

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

Took this photo on the drive home from work tonight. I believe this building was once a theater and suffered fire damage at one point, and now a nonprofit is redeveloping it and its neighbors on the block. Actually, I … Continue reading →

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Me 🎵 and my shadow 🎶

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

Just an image I liked from my week😀

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Bloom where you’re planted!

Posted on November 23, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

I thought of that saying right away about two weeks ago when I saw these cheerful flowers (um, weeds) growing out of the crack at the base of this brick wall where it hits the sidewalk (and took a picture, … Continue reading →

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My election commentary on Swedish public television news

Posted on November 6, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

Because I teach political science at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), I was tapped us someone to interview this morning in connection with yesterday’s Presidential election in the U.S. I tag-teamed with one of my colleagues, Dr. Jeremy Kedziora, which … Continue reading →

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A Quiet Nook

Posted on October 24, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

Our MSOE library has a section that’s built out at a diagonal to the rest of the building. Imagine a square inserted over and through one corner of a rectangle, and you would pretty much have a blueprint of the … Continue reading →

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The Invention of Morel

Posted on October 9, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

Our MSOE (Milwaukee School of Engineering) Faculty and Staff Book Club met Monday night to discuss this short but fascinating novel. But first a “prologue,” complete with photo. We meet at a place called The Explorium Brewpub, which is located … Continue reading →

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Autumn Synchronicity

Posted on October 8, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

 The leaves on the inside of my office window are attached to a long-dead branch from our birch tree, which my daughter and her classmate turned into a work of art about 12 years ago with the aid of … Continue reading →

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The surprising way those beach plane banners get airborne | GBH

Posted on June 8, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

It’s that time of year again in Milwaukee when small airplanes towing long banners begin to fly around (and around and around😀) the lakefront, the baseball stadium, and in a few months the State Fair Park. All of a sudden … Continue reading →

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