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Tag Archives: nature
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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Surf’s up!
W A Y U P 🙂
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
Holing up for winter
A few months ago I wrote some posts (here, here, and here) about the chickadees and woodpeckers that nested in our magnolia and silver maple trees, respectively. Just the mere act of writing about these birds (and videorecording them) has … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged bird nests, birds in winter, chickadees, nature, nest cavities, non-migratory birds, woodpeckers
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