Oh, sure, we've had a couple of rough weeks here in Wisconsin, where the wind chill dipped so low it froze the tears in our eyes and no matter how hard we squinted at the TV screen we couldn't make those purple jerseys look green and gold, but guess what? We acclimated. In fact, just [...]
Had we brought our steins, we would have raised them to the plucky participants of Cedarburg's Oktoberfest. Neither rain, nor wind, nor invasion by Polish/Croatian interlopers kept them from their appointed rounds. Prost! We wandered into the main tent on a soggy Saturday afternoon just in time for the Pommersche Tanzdeel Freistadt dancers (and, fortunately, [...]
Drive down almost any country road in Wisconsin and eventually you'll pass a church with a steeple and a story that will blow you away. A few weeks ago, we stumbled onto the Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church just as a summer storm rolled through Shawano County. I stopped to take a couple of pictures because [...]
Christopher Cross could have scored our recent trip to Door County, where we escaped the hazards of Goat Fest by sailing off into the lovely, though a little choppy, Green Bay. My last experience with sailing ended with the tip of our Sunflower getting stuck in the bottom of Long Lake 40 years ago, so [...]
I was joking when I started belting out "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" as we made our way through Bluebird Trail Sunday afternoon at Copper Culture State Park. Then, darned if the little buggers didn't start swooping overhead. "Hey look," I said. "Mr. Bluebird's on your shoulder!" We looked up and saw those pretty little birds flying everywhere. My [...]