Red Sumac

Smooth Sumac

Sumacs are famous for their red foliage and fruits throughout much of autumn.  The fruits remain over winter and even throughout the following spring, providing much needed winter food for birds. It’s not that the birds are particularly fond of the berries (the berries are really drupes as they have a pit, [...]

Milkweed Fluff

Milkweed in Autumn

The Common Milkweed, a native plant in Wisconsin, has rough textured pods that contain thousands of seeds attached to strands of silky down. As the pods split in autumn, the seeds open like tiny parachutes and travel on wind currents to a new site to seed.

This silky stuff has been [...]

Seth Peterson Cottage, Part II

Seth Peterson Cottage Exterior

Another set of photos from the cottage that was one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s last commissions.  Located on a cliff overlooking Mirror Lake in central Wisconsin, the building fell into near ruin. A private conservancy group negotiated with the state of Wisconsin to rehab the site.

Frank Lloyd [...]

Black Box

Quincy Paper Box Company

Sometimes I am simply drawn to texture and pattern. There is so much going on in this photo, and yet there is nothing going on at all.

Putting Out Fires

Fire Sprinkler Connection

Putting out fires…where is that fire hose?

Obscurity

Fence, Fog in Rural Wisconsin

Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned. ~~   Bertrand Russell

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