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Spring is a state of mind in Driftless Wisconsin
If you’re like me, spring arrives first as a state of mind rather than a season. With two months still to go on the calendar, my mind wandered into the boating season with a trip to Cabela’s in Prairie du Chien to look at depth finders for my boat. Ice on the...
Driftless Dark Skies: Good Morning (Evening) Earthshine
I saw the new moon late yestreen Wi’ the auld moon in her arm Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens Welcome 2017 with Earthshine! You can easily see how sunshine from our star lights up parts of our moon as it goes through its phases and the dark side wanes and waxes. And...
Winter’s gift
A small child is looking at me. I’m at a “Wake up Santa” event with my grandchildren and a small child is looking at me expectantly. She’s perhaps six or seven with eyes as wide as her smile. I think she has confused me with someone else so I look away. But her eyes...
Driftless Dark Skies: Stellar Colors
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” --Theodore Roethke The stars seem brighter as we move into winter. Fourteen of the 25 brightest stars are visible on a December evening. The Summer Triangle of Vega, Altair, and Deneb is setting in the west. Fomalhaut is...
Driftless Dark Skies: The Pleiades
Fool: The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason. Lear: Because they are not eight? Fool: Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool. November is an excellent month to discover the Seven Sisters, the Pleaides. They rise in the east just...
Driftless Dark Skies: Walk When the Moon is Full
This fall is a marvelous time for a moonwalk. The next three months, our calendar and lunar months align. The new moon falls near the beginning of the month. First quarter moon is a week later. Full moon is mid-month. Last quarter moon is the third week. And...
The fall color celebration
Everyone loves a party. Whether it’s 50 years of marriage, 25 years of a career, another year among the living, or another workweek among the gainfully employed, we humans gleefully celebrate that which we have accomplished or successfully put behind us. And so it is...
Driftless Dark Skies: Home in the Milky Way
“Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way? Henry David Thoreau, Walden Look up into the September sky and you will see our Milky Way flowing across. It starts in the northwest where you find Perseus the Hero, now safe from the gorgon and sea...
Driftless Wisconsin: shaped by water
In my last newspaper column, I wrote about our trip out west to the National Parks that my wife and I recently completed. About our experience at Yellowstone National Park, I wrote: “Artist Point, hovering above the rim of Yellowstone’s Grand Canyon, reveals...
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