The memorial statue of Red Bird, chief of the Winnebagos, stands guard over the lake and waves goodbye to another sunset at High Cliff State Park in Wisconsin.
High Cliff is the only state park on Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin's largest lake. High Cliff gets its name from the limestone cliff of the Niagara Escarpment. It's also the nearest state park to my home and a great place to experience a sunset. It was a great reminder that Spring has officially arrived here and that this native Californian survived, endured, and suffered through his first Wisconsin winter!
I can finally put away my down jacket, snow shovel, and ice scraper. Now the only thing I have to get use to is that the locals call the coastline along Lake Michigan the "beach." Yes, there's sand, sun and water, but it's lake water and that's not a beach in my book. Give me sand, sun and the Pacific Ocean and we have a beach!
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I wish I could say I took this in the wild but it was taken in the friendly confines of the Milwaukee County Zoo. I decided to take a trip there since locals highly recommended it to me as a photography day trip.
The zoo’s felines are housed in a building called the Florence Mila Borchert Big Cat Country. The exhibit has both an indoor and outdoor area. I would assume the cats spend most of their time inside to escape the cold Wisconsin weather.
This jaguar proved to be the perfect model as it remained still while posing for me and then it gave me the look, “I’m done and now I’m going to eat you for lunch!”
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Statue of Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli on the Riverwalk in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
"The Fonz" was originally a minor character in the sitcom 'Happy Days', set in Milwaukee during the 1950s. For those fans of the show you may remember he was known for his catchphrases: "Whoa", and "Aaay!"/"Eyyy!" and who can forget his famous thumbs up!
One thing that amazed me was that the life size statue was much smaller than I imagined (but of course Henry Winkler who played the "The Fonz" on TV is only 5'6").
Happy days are here again!
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Hiking in Devil’s Lake State Park in Baraboo, Wisconsin I came upon this geological formation known as Devil’s Doorway. I don’t know the history behind the name but my assumption is that living in Wisconsin is hell! The freezing winters are hell! Shoveling back breaking snow is hell! The pesky mosquitoes in summer are hell! I think it’s an appropriate name.
I must be in hell because I’m think about returning here in the next couple of weeks to photograph the Devil’s Doorway blanketed in the winter snow.
I have photographed American Southwest icons such as Canyon de Chelly in Arizona, Bryce Canyon in Utah, Cathedral Rock in Sedona and I always wanted to go back there for a winter landscape photo shoot. I won’t be traveling to those places anytime soon so the Devil’s Doorway will have to suffice for now.
Oh hell!
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Founded in 1847 Lawrence University is an internationally renowned college of liberal arts and sciences and a conservatory of music.
More fall colors around Wisconsin with another week before the peak season.
If I were still in college this is the type of campus I would love to study at! Small liberal arts college with beautiful surroundings. Of course, when the snow starts to fall I would quickly transfer to a warm weather college.
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