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Tag Archives: nature
Field trip!
We try to take our dog on a field trip once a week, just to give her some new sights and smells and not to mention a thrilling opportunity to ride in the car! Today my daughter and I went … Continue reading
Is climate change cyclical?
Although most media reports on climate change focus on looming disaster, I’ve read some interesting articles recently that look backward and provide some long-term perspective. Melting glaciers are revealing ancient human artifacts as they recede. Beneath ice thousands of years … Continue reading
Posted in History, Life, Nature, News, Popular culture
Tagged archeology, climate change, glaciers, global warming, human artifacts, ice, ice age, ice patches, nature, Science
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Crab-apple season (photos)
I have mixed feelings about our crab apple. On the one hand, it’s a beautiful tree, especially covered with soft pink flowers in spring. But it also dumps piles of fruit on the ground every autumn. Which the chipmunks love, as you … Continue reading
Posted in Life
Tagged "il faut souffrir", "one must suffer to be beautiful", autumn, beautiful tree, chipmunks, crab apple, crab apples, dogs, nature
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Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright
It all depends on your perspective . . . Yesterday I happened to look up through the branches of our crab apple and silver maple trees and saw that the leaves way, way up there were suffused with late-afternoon sunlight. … Continue reading
Posted in Life
Tagged "Casey at the Bat", joy in mudville, mighty casey, mood, nature, perspective, silver maple trees, sunshine, there is no joy in mudville
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September Mint (and other photos of summer’s end)
September is here, and Mother Nature is wrapping up summer here in Milwaukee. After a busy August, I now am back in school (I teach at Milwaukee School of Engineering) and catching up on chores around the house whenever I … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Milwaukee
Tagged autumn, autumn leaves, baby birds, cardinals, leaving the nest, mint, mint plants, nature, outdoors, plants, seasons, September, silver maple tree
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Marbleized shadow (photo)
What is this? Maybe this will help. I stopped at the store on my way home from teaching last night and parked under one of those tall, bright lights at the edge of the lot. As I pulled out my grocery … Continue reading
It’s beginning to look a lot like . . . St. Patrick’s Day?
My favorite Starbucks establishment is just a few blocks away from my office, at Red Arrow Park at the corner of Water and State in downtown Milwaukee. It is the only Starbucks I know of that’s located in a park … Continue reading
White Tree of Gondor?
Nope, just a tree in the parking lot at our local grocery store. I love the way naked winter trees are illuminated at night by those large overhead lights. Here is a shot of three trees at a shopping mall that … Continue reading