A Bloy and his Blog

On the morning of my last full day at Monterey, I got up early to watch the sunrise.

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I just returned from a vacation at my favorite place for camping, the Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest. In addition to doing a lot of biking and hiking, I was treated to unique sunsets on five nights of my stay on Trout Lake. Here are the best photos from each of those sunsets.

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Late yesterday afternoon, some strong storms rolled through southern Wisconsin. I spent some time on my front porch, watching them go by. There is something very fascinating about weather — especially fast moving weather, that can captivate my attention for hours.

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The sun peeked out from the clouds in the middle of a rainstorm late this afternoon.

See the tips of the trees in the bottom right corner? Autumn is coming…

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.

Yesterday I returned home from a camping trip to northern Wisconsin. My goal for this trip was to explore some of the bike trails in Vilas County that run through the Northern Highland – American Legion State Forest.

read the rest of: Biking the north woods

Thanks to an alert from SpaceWeather.com, last night I was treated to a display of the aurora borealis.

read the rest of: Aurora over Franklin, Wisconsin