Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
The sun came up the morning after the Brewer season ended and, because we live in Wisconsin, it (intermittently) lit up a gorgeous amber and lemon yellow skyline. Life is still good here and we are still grateful. We enjoyed our little four-season run, when the Brewers, Packers and Bucks seasons intersected with fall. But [...]
I caught a robin's eye yesterday and we sadly shook our heads. April in Wisconsin, man, it's not for the faint of feather. I know this because my spiffy down coat has been molting since December. I keep storing it away with my winter boots, and then hauling them back upstairs as another blustery front [...]
The sun lit Wisconsin's first snow beautifully Saturday as I traveled home, so, of course, I had to stop and take a picture. Then, I stopped again, hopscotching happily across rural roads and rudely ignoring the very advice I'd solicited from my turn-by-turn navigation. Recalculating. Winter's first snow preens a little as it lands. It [...]
Virginia Lee Burton would have loved Appleton's annual elementary school winter art project. Author of the cheerfully feminist Katy and the Big Snow and several other award winning children's books, Burton celebrated art in all forms and founded Folly Cove, a group of internationally recognized artisans. By asking elementary school children to decorate snow shovels, [...]
Winter wrote its story on the trees. It blew in on fat snowflakes and settled with a festive Christmas charm on proud, sturdy branches. It mounded gently over thirsty roots like a fickle promise. Ice twinkled through white snow, green needles, brown bark. December trees stood tall and strong. But winter overstayed its welcome. Sleet [...]