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.
Tag Archives: Landscape
Sunday snowstorm
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.
November hike
It was a great day for a hike yesterday, so I did a little exploring and headed to New Glarus Woods State Park.
Autumn pond
Taken at the Arboretum yesterday.
Yellowstone Lake State Park
Despite the threat of rain, I decided to do some exploring today and visit a park I’ve never been to before, Yellowstone Lake State Park.
Biking the north woods
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.
Land of Lincoln
While I was in Illinois last week to see Cahokia Mounds, I also stopped at a few other historic places.
Cahokia Mounds
Yesterday I returned home from a vacation, the main point of which was to visit Cahokia Mounds, in south-western Illinois (about 13 miles east of St Louis).
Cahokia Mounds are the remnants of a native civilization that at one time, was probably home to 10,000-20,000 people.
Spring in the Arboretum
Yesterday I decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather and went for a hike through the Arboretum. There were a few early flowers out, like this blossom from one of the fruit trees.
Snow day!
Madison got socked in with snow today. About an hour into my work day, the “powers that be” decided to close the college because of the storm. I felt like a school kid who had the day off because of the snow.
