(This is continued from A Day in the Life: Part 1) As one o'clock rolls around, the students gather up their instruments and begin to head out to their 1:20 PM classes in Music Hall, Humanites, Ogg, Hamel Music Center…
Since 1929, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has invited young musicians -- middle school students (grades 6-8) and high school students (grades 9-12) -- to participate in its Summer Music Clinic (SMC) program. There they can enjoy all forms of music…
It dawned on me last night, assuming that dawn can happen at night, that I have a difficult time not going out to photograph the moon, especially the full moon. Some people like babies, some people like cats, I've just…
I had difficulty sleeping last night. Christmas is coming and it's unlikely that we will have any happy memories from this crazy corona year. While I was lying quietly in the darkness, suddenly the air turned cold and I heard…
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…
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…
We were walking down Mohrenstrasse towards the Berlin Mall when I noticed a sign for the "Big Berlin Fashion Show." If you've seen my wardrobe, you know that no one would ever consider me to be a fashionista. Having never…