Photographs from a Bloy in Wisconsin
Dear Mother Nature,
Thank you for all the snow over the past several weeks. It really does makes everything look beautiful. Unfortunately, I am beginning to run out of places to put it when I shovel my driveway.
Would you mind holding off on the snow for a while, say maybe until some of it melts? That would be great. Thanks.
Your friend,
Jonathan
Yesterday I had another new home owner’s experience. I bought a roof rake and cleared the snow from the bottom portion of my roof.
There’s nothing like a walk in the woods, even in winter.
Taken at the UW Arboretum today.
Yesterday I headed over to Vilas Park to hike around a bit. I wasn’t the only one taking advantage of winter recreation there.
In spite of the hassles that come with the record amounts of snow, it really was quite beautiful this morning. I decided to put on my hiking boots and get out there with my camera, before all the snow blew off the branches. Below is a shot looking east down Schroeder Road.
Despite the continuing below-normal temperatures, I needed to connect with the outdoors today. Late this afternoon, I visited a frozen Lake Monona.
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’m using Lightbox, a very nice javascript thumbnail viewer. Pretty slick, huh?
I did go back and add larger versions to quite a few previously posted photos. Some of my favorites include the posts: North Woods Camping, The Butterfly and Aurora over Franklin. I’ll probably add more as time permits.
For you web geeks out there, the Lightbox package is a minimal 302 bytes. It will open the image to full size, or as large as will fit in the user’s browser window. It also degrades nicely if javascript is turned off in the user’s browser.
