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Along the flat plains of SW Wisconsin arise sandstone buttes that were most likely islands in Glacial Lake Wisconsin during the Ice Age, 12,000 and more years ago. Due to some harder rock at upper levels on these buttes they did not erode to the level of the rest of the area. They are a somewhat unexpected and interesting sight to see whilst driving along Interstate highway 90 in the area.
Last Thursday, I took the LOOONG way to the grocery store. I was out and about with the camera for a couple of hours before heading up Hwy 60 to the Piggly Wiggly in Sauk City.
It's charming that Mr. and Mrs. H keep the romance alive so effortlessly. WIthout a word, they teased a noodle from the baked macaroni and cheese and started doing that scene from "Lady And The Tramp."
I took three shots as I drove by - I like something about all of them.
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The Wisconsin Dental Association and WDA Foundation marked the half-way point in its second annual Mission of Mercy by delivering smiles to 1,018 children and adults on Friday, June 25, 2010 at Sheboygan North High School in Sheboygan, Wis.
Built in 1893 and sold to the Mt. Vernon Telephone Co. in 1914 after the bank moved to a newer building.
This immense White House, resting on its roof in the Wisconsin Dells, suggests by its name that within it lies the answer to why our world currently stands on its head. It's a secret, of course -- but it's also a very confusing secret, so we don't feel too bad about revealing what we saw when we were there....
(There are other upside-down White Houses -- in Orlando, Florida and Sevierville, Tennessee -- but they're half the size of Top Secret Inc. and their insides are just expensive arcades that are right side up.)
from roadsideamerica.com
A Madison, Wisconsin landmark that has been doing business at this Monroe Street location since 1942, Mallatt's Pharmacy (or is it Mallatt?) seems to have a cavalier attitude toward punctuation, judging from their signs. But they're all business when it comes to theatrical makeup and costumes. They're the place to go for all your Halloween needs. How did a pharmacy find itself in this unique position? Check out my blog Letter from Here. (Best viewed in Original size to see what's going on with Uncle Sam's metamorphosis.) Or, better yet, daylight.
At various places on our walk we came across people collecting signatures for the Scott Walker Recall initiative.
I know I shouldn't laugh when I visit a graveyard, but this one really made me chuckle. I guess everybody in town wanted to be burried under this tree. The tombstones were literally right next to each other. I can't imagine how people had to be burried to get them all in this small plot.
(Updated July 28, 2024)
Looking at a community of lichens growing quite happily on a basalt outcrop strewn with pine-needle duff, not far from Snake Pit Falls.
In this extended series on one of America's greatest state parks, I'm going absolutely bonkers. In coming months I'll post as many of my numerous photos of this site as I possibly can, even if they're near-duplicates, because because this place in far-northwestern Wisconsin happens to be situated in a remarkable place, both geologically and botanically. For more on the dramatic geology, check out Part 2.
In this shot, however, the focus is on the branch of botany devoted to the identification and study of those amazing composite organisms, the lichens. The more one explores their world, which extends to so many different climates and habitats, one can't help wondering whether they're this planet's dominant form of life.
While more than one species is present, my attention rests squarely on the fine specimen of Crater Lichen (Diploschistes scruposus) at center. In my experience, it's often a pale, ashen gray. In this case, though, it's tinged green. perhaps because it was wetted by a recent shower and so had its photosynthetic component, most likely green algae, activated.
The pen, a temporary addition to the scene, was placed there for scale. The basalt underneath belongs to the Chengwatana Volcanic Group, which has been dated to about 1.1 Ga. It's part of the massive outflow of mafic lava produced by the Midcontinent Rift late in the Mesoproterozoic era. We'll have much more to say about that titanic structural feature in later images of this set.
And, by the bye, the browned needles seem to be in fascicles or bundles of five, which means they fell from nearby Eastern White Pines (Pinus strobus).
You'll find the other photos and descriptions of this series in my Integrative Natural History of Amnicon Falls State Park album.