A Bloy and his Blog

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For a while now, I’ve been looking for a decent method to display larger photos on this site (some pictures look so much better at larger sizes). I finally settled on Highslide JS, a very nice javascript thumbnail viewer. Just click on the photograph to zoom out to a larger version. It also lets you drag the larger image around, and open up multiple images at once. Pretty slick, huh?

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We got a bit of snow last night. It was absolutely beautiful the way it coated all the trees.

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It’s been pretty cold here in Madison for the past week, and this morning our first big winter storm of the season began.

Today I’ve officially gone into Winter mode. I put a batch of chili in the crock pot, and dug my humidifier out of the closet. While those shocks from static electricity are fun at first, it gets a little old after a few times. I also took my first pictures of snow for the season, from the warm side of my patio door of course.

Yes, winter has arrived.

A pretty big winter storm has been hitting the upper great lakes region this weekend.

As Henry David Thoreau wrote, “The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!”
– from Walden, Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors.

After I was whining about a lack of winter weather earlier this month, it has been very wintry here over the past week or so. We’ve had a couple of snowstorms and typically cold temperatures.

This was the scene outside my door this morning.

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