If you're one of the two or three people who occasionally check out this blog, you know that I haven't posted anything in quite a while. Although I've been busy getting a new exhibit ready to hang in the month of October, I…
Everybody knows that it's been a very long, very hot, and very dry summer across most of the US. Over the past few weeks we've finally started to get a little rain in Wisconsin again. We're still well behind the…
It must be the heat because I keep thinking about waterfalls. I know there are waterfalls all around the country, but when I think of them Oregon usually comes to mind. When I lived in Portland I often made trips…
[Note: If you've been following my blog entries, you know that I've been watching a family of Sandhill Cranes in our neighborhood. I first mentioned them about a month ago (5/11), and then gave an update a couple weeks ago…
Every month a member of the Center for Photography at Madison (now known as PhotoMidwest) is invited to exhibit his or her photos in the gallery and make a presentation as “Photographer of the Month.” I should point out that this…
OK, I'll admit it, last weekend I rented "The Muppets" -- not the actual Muppets, but the movie that came out last year. It was mostly out of nostalgia. Our kids grew up when "The Muppet Show" was on TV and…
Since we first saw the Sandhill Cranes nesting in our neighborhood on 5/4/12, we've been going down to the pond almost every day to watch them. Word quickly spread about the baby cranes so other people are now down there almost…
My wife is a bird watcher. She says that she's not very good but I'm always impressed by how much she knows. She's had a lot of fun this week because she heard about a pair of Sandhill Cranes that were…
The Colorado Plateau is a fascinating area nearly devoid of water though it has been shaped almost entirely by water. A large part of the plateau lies in Utah, parts of which are protected in numerous parks and monuments. I've…