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go Though Madison has five lakes in the city or just south of the city, it is usually called the City of Four Lakes. The four lakes are successive lakes of the Yahara River. In the summer, it’s great fun to launch a boat in Lake Mendota (“Fourth Lake”) and travel through the lakes and connecting waters passages, heading south past Lake Monona (“Third Lake”), Lake Waubesa (“Second Lake”), and into Lake Kegonsa (“First Lake”). The Yahara River eventually flows into the Rock River which eventually flows into the Mississippi. Lake Wingra, the fifth lake, is not a part of the Yahara system, though it is inside the city proper. Wingra, quite small, is mostly used for canoeing or fishing or just lake watching.

Buy Ambien Online Overnight Downtown Madison is positioned between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, and the area is usually referred to as the Isthmus. As in “I’m going to the Isthmus” or occasionally one might say “I’m going to the Capitol” (which is smack dab in the middle of the isthmus). Only infrequently does one hear “I’m going downtown.” Every school kid in Madison grows up knowing what an isthmus is, and how to get to Madison’s Isthmus. Madison even has a newspaper called The Isthmus.

watch Of Madison’s 85 square miles, 81% is land and 19% is water. Lots of water fun in Madison.

https://rmscherubimhealthcare.com/services/annual-wellness-service/ Though right now, it’s more like lots of ice fun – skating, cross-country skiing on the snow covering the ice, kite sailing, and ice fishing for hardy souls.

Mormodes Orchids

click here These orchids grow throughout Mexico and south to Bolivia and Brazil in tropical forests. Usually they grow on the rotting parts of trees or rotting logs and trunks.

go here Another photo from the Bolz Conservatory in the Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison. My favorite place to photograph when I’m in the mood to take photos and still stay warm.

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Being Evil-Eyed by a Turtle

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Here's Looking at You, Folks

This guy didn’t seem to have much faith in the photographer nor the photographer’s equipment. Even after I capped my lens, folded my tripod, and turned away, I could feel his eyes piercing my back. Honest!  When I turned around, he was still staring at me.

So was he simply curious, or was he giving me the ol’ evil-eye?

Glass of Blue and Icy White

Granger Hall Library

Stained Glass Window in Grainger Hall Library

This is a small part of a large stained glass window in the business building on the University of Wisconsin – Madison campus.  I was trying to find something to photograph that didn’t send a chill of cold through my body, and thought I’d found the perfect subject when I saw this stained glass window. Once the photograph popped up on my monitor, however, I realized the blues and whites reminded me of the icy outside I was trying to ignore. At least I was warm while I was shooting since I took the photo from the interior of the library.

Watching all the students studying, makes me glad that that part of my life is in the distant past. I still love to learn, but I like to do it on my own schedule and pick my subjects with due consideration.

Bald Eagle Revival

Roosting Near the Mississippi River

Roosting in the Bluffs Near the Mississippi River

The Bald Eagles appear to be alive and well. A far cry from their story only a few decades ago, when America’s symbolic bird was on the Endangered Species list.

I went to observe the eagles wintering along the Mississippi River. They tend to hang out around the locks and dams which have areas of open water, even during the winter’s coldest months. And open water, to an eagle, indicates the diner in open.

I spent parts of last Saturday and Sunday mornings at the Lock and Dam # 11 near Dubuque, Iowa. Saturday was overcast and cold (6˚F) but the eagles were quite active because it had warmed about 20˚ in the last two days. They thought it plenty warm enough to do a few aerial dives into the river and they were successful in their fishing attempts.  I must have seen a dozen birds in the hour I was there.

On Sunday the clouds cleared for a few hours, and I was actually able to get a shot of this eagle with blue skies in the background. But the aerialists were gone, and I had to settle for seeing maybe three or four birds high in the trees along the bluffs.

I spoke to a member of the Army Corps of Engineers who oversees the dam, and also to a member of the local Audubon Society who keeps his eyes on the eagles. They both told me they’ve been doing eagle counts since the 1970s. Thirty years ago, in a counting trip from one dam to the next, in a span of perhaps 20 miles, they saw a total of one Bald Eagle. This year, same span, same time of year, and they reported seeing more than 200.

Soaring above the Mississippi

Soaring above the Mississippi

Yes, quite a comeback. It seems the Bald Eagles are doing quite well.