The fall color celebration

Driftless Wisconsin

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

Driftless Wisconsin

“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

Driftless Wisconsin

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...

Driftless Dark Skies: Planets and Perseids

Driftless Wisconsin

I remember bundling up mornings back in February to enjoy the sight of five planets at once in the predawn skies. This month, we can do it without bundling or rising early. All five visible planets will be in the evening sky starting around 9pm. The Moon is an...

Driftless Dark Skies: Summer Triangle

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As darkness falls this month, watch for three shining stars emerging in the east. They are the brightest stars in three separate constellations, but together they form an asterism (a star pattern) known as the Summer Triangle. They cover an area of sky larger than...
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