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Cycling the City

By Eric on July 26, 2008

I decided to explore the downtown Milwaukee area this morning, specifically the waterfront. I started out at Veterans Park around 9am, rode down to Lakeshore State Park, back up to Big Bay Park in Whitefish Bay, down to Brady Street for the Festival, back to the Art Museum to check out the art fair there, [...]

Posted in Biking, Closeup/Macro, Landscape, Places, Wildflowers

MN and WI Wildflower Images

By Eric on July 26, 2008

I just finished putting together a collection of 13 images of wildflowers from southeastern Minnesota and central Wisconsin. I took the photos on my way into Wisconsin about 2 weeks ago with stops in Great River Bluffs State Park (MN) and the Wisconsin Dells Area. You can see the rest at the MN and WI [...]

Posted in Closeup/Macro, Hiking, Nature Walks, Wildflowers

A Bee’s Work is Never Done

By Eric on July 19, 2008

While hiking along the nature trails at the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, WI I came across this little guy, who was very hard at work at getting as much pollen as he could. I think the small tree he was on was a dogwood, but I’m not really sure as I’m not very good [...]

Posted in Closeup/Macro, Nature Walks, Wildlife

Great River Bluffs State Park (Minnesota)

By Eric on July 16, 2008

On the third day of my trip to Wisconsin, I stopped by the Great River Bluffs State Park, which lies on the banks of the Mississippi River across from La Crosse Wisconsin. There was an amazing sea of wildflowers throughout the park and along the highway on my way there. It was also challening to [...]

Posted in Closeup/Macro, Nature Walks, Wildflowers, Wildlife