Photo Challenge
Published December 19, 2008 | 
Explorers’ Corner is putting on an Adventure Photography contest with some great prizes. The best bit is they accept normal “real people” photos submitted by email. So why not send them your best shots? Click Here For Details. Just be quick as submissions are accepted from December 12th, 2008 to January 30th, 2009 and voting ends on February 2nd, 2009.
Wisconsin Winter
Published December 18, 2008 | 
Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love light gleams
I’ll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams
-kent
Today we wait in anticipation of another winter storm. The third in just a few days. Lest you begin to believe this is common Wisconsin weather, let me say it certainly is not. Wisconsin is located on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan and rarely subject to lake effect snows. Southern Wisconsin is certainly too distant from our Lake Superior coast to be effected by it’s heavy coastal snows. No, as a matter of fact we just happen to be in the perfect location for the jet stream to carry west coast and occasionally gulf of Mexico moisture up our way to mix with the cold Canadian air that regulary dips over our little spot on the planet.
Yesterday I took a drive and thought I’d share a few images from winter in our part of the world. Continue reading
Frozen Assets
Published December 17, 2008 | 
It won’t be long now. On the first day of the new year crazy paddlers from around Wisconsin gather at Lake Columbia near Portage, Wisconsin where the water is warm and the air is well. . , “not”.
Tragically Hip
Published December 16, 2008 | 
Rushing out the door this morning but here’s a little music from Steve Wilson & Mark Sanders to sooth the kayak addict. . . or possibly cure them once and for all. . . Click Here!
Sledding into Darkness
Published December 15, 2008 | 
Saturday was a day we did most of the things you mean to do around the holiday season. Friday I had written an article for my hometown community website talking a bit about local charity. Not the usual “send money to so and so” sort of stuff that tends to make our hearing go bad, but a couple simple, easy, very local things we could do to help local kids have a better holiday. It’s funny sometimes how we can donate to global causes while letting the kid down the street go without supper. Anyway to climb off the soap box, Saturday was the day we went and did those little things ourselves.
Say somethin’ funny. . .
Published December 15, 2008 | 
Just a comment. A famous comedian once talked about the pressure to perform when out in public. Where random strangers would come up and stare at you expecting you to be well, funny. Thing is, sometimes even clowns just don’t feel all that funny.
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It’s sometimes those subtle things that can do the most damage. Like this reporter saying that it’s a “good thing this one leaves the water” when reporting the catch of a shark in the waters off Florida’s coast. Although Hammerhead sharks specifically are assumed not to be a threatened species, we certainly don’t want to promote the idea that the killing of sharks is always a “good thing” simply because it’s one less shark.