A Bloy and his Blog

I just returned from camping at Wisconsin’s Northern Highland State Forest.

read the rest of: Camping “up north”

This is a composite of three pictures I took of the Fourth of July fireworks. Taken from my front porch.

As an aside… I recently discovered my website settings were preventing web-based RSS readers from displaying the photographs I post. Now fixed.

Last night I went with some of my family to watch Rhythm & Booms from the other side of Lake Mendota (along Observatory Drive). The fireworks display was pretty good, and it was fun being outside on a beautiful evening. While listening to the radio before the show (the display is choreographed with music over the radio), we heard the announcer say it was the “largest annual event in Wisconsin.” I beg to differ.

It was another gorgeous summer day today, so I returned to Mendota, and went for a long bike ride along the lake. One of my favorite places to ride in Madison is where the bike path runs along the lake shore in the middle of the U.W. campus.

I ended up biking for most of the afternoon. I stuck to the shore as best I could, riding through where the rich people live, and made it up to the northern side of the city.

After I got home, I decided it had to be one of the best rides I’ve done this year.

While I was camping last week, I took a day trip across the Mississippi River to Great River Bluffs State Park in Minnesota.

The above view of Queen’s Buff is your reward after about a mile hike through the woods. My jaw just dropped as I emerged from the forest and saw the spectacular scene.

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About two miles north of where I was camping last week, was the Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge.

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I just returned from a camping trip, where I stayed at Perrot State Park.

The park is located along the Mississippi River, about 15 miles northwest of La Crosse, Wisconsin.

read the rest of: Camping along the Mississippi

Dad came with me on my trip (he wanted to spend some time at the National Cathedral and the National Archives). It was good having a traveling companion along.

read the rest of: A rainy Sunday at the Cathedral