A Green Christmas???

I do not love winter and I am finding it more difficult every year to tolerate the cold for so long. This year winter may not seem so long as last year, after all last year at this time we had a blizzard in early December and the snow stayed for a very loooong time. This year it appears that we may have a Christmas with very little snow on the ground. Which may make winter seem a little shorter.

We have had snow already but almost all of it has melted away. I know that states south of Wisconsin are used to this sort of thing, but it is very unusual in central Wisconsin, we almost always have white a Christmas.

Here is a snow man that someone built on top of Rib Mountain on the rail of a look-out platform. Merry Christmas little fella...(by the way he has already melted).

Rib Mountain State Park

Like to Ski?...It is also called Granite Peak

Oswald the Good Luck Pig

This little fella is in a small town in southwest Wisconsin called Arcadia. I admit it would be nice if good luck and blessings really did come from rubbing his "snoot". As a matter of fact if the previous statement were true I might consider moving to Arcadia just to be close to Oswald. Sadly, even though it appears that thousands have likely touched his snoot, good fortune does not come from a brass pig.

Much of what we consider luck is often rooted in good choices that have come back to bless us in unexpected ways.

Arcadia has the amazing Memorial Park, with dozens of beautiful monuments; check it out:
Arcadia Wisconsin

A Very Fun Trip

I bet you will never guess where this photo was taken. It was the week of my wife's 40th birthday; and perhaps the only really big trip we took as a family. My kids were about 15 or 16, (three kids and only two birthdays...twins). We took the Amtrak all the way to Seattle. I want to go back there some day.

This photo was taken 13 years ago with a film camera; what else would I use it was the only reliable way to get a good photo? I scanned it into my computer years later with an old scanner (new at the time) with poor resolution capabilities.

I have had quite a few digital cameras since then, now my phone would likely take a better photo than this. Thats the way technology goes I guess.

I will try to dig up more Seattle pics someday.

I Know Where Luke Might Be

It is obvious to me now that Luke had a hard landing in a field in east central Wisconsin in a small town called Auroraville. It appears that C3PO is in some type of dormant hibernation phase until Han and Chewy come to rescue him. I wonder if Luke is incognito as a humble citizen of Auroraville?

This photo was taken in Auroraville, Wisconsin while I was taking pictures for an e-zine article on the history of Pentecost in Wisconsin.

A totally unexpected find.