State Street starts on the west corner of the Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin. It runs west for six blocks where it abuts the bottom of Bascom Hill, the tree-covered glacial drumlin that is sometimes considered "the heart" of the…
I wrote two posts about our 2017 trip to Iceland previously, so you already may have seen a few of these photos. This time, however, I'm focusing on the graffiti and street art that is so abundant in Reykjavik. In…
I haven't traveled in a while, so I dug out some photos from an old trip, a very old -- no -- a very, very old one. From 1977 - 1982, I taught chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in…
Windows always seem to be looking at me when I pass by. Barns, houses, office buildings, it doesn't matter what kind of structure it is. Maybe that's why I often take pictures of them. In most cases, of course, it's…
With a lot of time on my hands and only one or two tasks on my to-do list, I thought I'd look through some of my old photographs. My Lightroom photo catalog currently holds 119,124 images, so there might…
I've never been to the Superbowl or the World Series, but recently I was lucky to attend another exciting major world championship. If you guessed the World Champion Cheese Contest, you're right! This biennial event was held in Madison this…
A wind blew in from the southeast Friday bringing ice to Madison! The creative folks from Art Below Zero -- which, by the way, is located in Franksville, Wisconsin -- were at Hilldale Mall installing an Ice Bar at Cafe…
A recent story on the evening news listed the most popular destinations where Americans will go to escape winter. Number one on the list was Las Vegas. I'm not planning to go there this winter, but, since I'm experiencing a…
The winter solstice, that magical shortest day of the year when the sun resets its clock and starts to bring us longer and warmer days. For those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere, that comes on the 21st of…