A Bloy and his Blog

Trying to see last night’s eclipse was a bit of a let down, but the clouds over Lake Mendota actually produced a pretty nice sunset.

At last, winter has asserted itself in Madison.

Thursday’s storm created some nice snow drifts along the dock at Tenney Park. They looked like crashing waves to me, frozen in time.

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The best sunset I saw on my last camping trip.

read the rest of: Fiery sky over Trout Lake

I spent last week camping in Wisconsin’s Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest. One of my favorite things about that area, are all the secluded, “secret”, places that are just a short distance off of bike trails, hiking trails, and roads.

If you get off of your bike while riding on the trail near Crystal Lake, you’ll discover this above scene just a few dozen yards away (along a short hiking trail). Yet hardly anyone stops to take in its beauty.

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I think Lake Monona is getting into the holiday spirit. Making ornaments from cold air and water.

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I like to call this time of the year the season of darkness. The hours of daylight are getting shorter and shorter. Everything is gray and brown, and there isn’t any snow on the ground to brighten things up. It’s all a bit depressing. But maybe I need to look at it in a different way. Take away the color, even from a gorgeous sunset, and there is beauty to be seen in the gray.

I should play around with black and white photography more.

The sun is dropping out of the sky way too early these days. I took these pictures of the sun setting over Lake Monona about 4:30 in the afternoon the other day.

read the rest of: Early sunsets