Something else I’m missing this spring: Walking through Olbrich Botanical Gardens and seeing the spring blossoms. Guess I’ll have to settle for these daffodils on this side of the fence.
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Fresh green
The trees in southern Wisconsin aren’t green yet, but look close, they will be soon.
Purple scilla
Another welcome sight from a neighborhood walk.
Maintaing distance, outside
Some popular Wisconsin and National parks have seen crowds of people lately, making it difficult to maintain that social distancing during the current pandemic. Hoping to avoid that, I took advantage of the nice day by driving to a lesser known spot, New Glarus Woods State Park.
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Me and my shadow on a sunset hike
Spring has not been canceled
A pandemic can stop a lot of things, but not Spring. Saw these snow drops while out on a walk yesterday.
Emerging pussy willows
Since I’ve been working from home for almost two weeks now, I’m trying to get out of the house everyday. At the very least, that means a good walk around the neighborhood. When I was out today and saw these pussy willows in the process of emerging, I thought of them as a metaphor for our current situation.
Right now, most of us are in a social distancing “winter.” Someday that season will end, we will emerge from semi-isolation, and live our normal lives again. Until then, we have this pussy willow to help us remember it will not be forever.
Bare trees at twilight
March lake ice
Went for a cold walk along the Lake Monona shore late yesterday. Still a fair amount of ice out there. Woke up to snow on the ground this morning. Winter is hanging on…
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