Happy 2008 Sunrise

click here New Year Sunrise © 2008

go here As day welcomes the sun, we welcome a New Year.

see url Hope 2008 is happy, healthy and sunny for all of you. Happy New Years Day!

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Kudos to Madison

https://annmorrislighting.com/ihkcx2st To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~ George Santayana

https://aaerj.org.br/2024/05/13/4aagxnye On the Prairie Path in Owen Conservation Park, Madison, Wisconsin, as the last autumn leaves hold fast to the tree limbs amidst the first of winter’s snow flurries.

source url In my October 31st post I noted large construction machinery leveling land in the southwest corner of this conservation park. I left a message with my alderman complaining about infringement in our conservation parks, but did not follow-up as I should have. I now discover that the City of Madison has not succumbed to the pressures of outside development, but is instead improving the site. I do acknowledge that Madison is one of the most environmentally-conscious and progressive larger cities (200,000 city population, 500,000 metro) I have ever lived in, so I should have given it the benefit of doubt until I checked the facts.

go to site I recently found out that the city is constructing three storm-water/wildlife ponds in the park to replace an eroded channel to Lake Mendota. This water way currently carries tons of sediment to our largest downtown lake (9842 acres) every year. Soon, Owen Park will have three new wildlife ponds to attract the aviation population. Sorry, Madison. I jumped to a wrong conclusion when I should have checked my facts first. Kudos to Madison, instead. I will follow up as the project moves forward.

Three Trees at Sunrise

Three Trees at Sunrise

source url Three Trees at Sunrise © 2007

go to link See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
~ Mother Theresa

https://pkuatm.org/2024/05/13/5702ff6y9w Owen Conservation Park in Madison, Wisconsin taken at sunrise, November 1, 2007

Purple Haze

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https://www.vertaglia.com/l7hit3zcma0 “When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky” ~ Buddha

https://yplocal.us/16y4eips Photographed at sunrise, Owen Conservation Park in Madison, Wisconsin on the first of November, 2007.

Double Yellows

Deep blue lake trapping
Reflection in calm waters
Double yellow orbs.

Just after sunrise on a calm, mid-October morning.
Indian Lake County Park in Dane County, Wisconsin