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On a crisp clear night like Wednesday's in Milwaukee, signature amber harp lights in our Olmsted-designed Lake Park create this magic-carpet phenomenon on two ravine spanning bridges - each with four guardian stone lions.
March 13, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Public policy primer: A Roosevelt-era WPA project built water flow-harnessing ravine-preserving stone walls that created Milwaukee’s beautiful Lake Park waterfall. The flow helps replenish Lake Michigan along a shoreline placed in the public domain by socialist city officials decades ago.
January 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I’m declaring today, 12/15 Fog Appreciation Day, Milwaukee. L-R, weeping beech on North Point, twin white ash trees, oldest of the threatened species, in Lake Park, appearing as a single tree.
December 16, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Providing funds so children 12 and under can visit the Milwaukee Art Museum in perpetuity is one of the most amazingly impactful acts of Wisconsin charitable giving, ever. mam.org/info/pressro...
Kids 12 and Under Will Always Visit the Milwaukee Art Museum for Free, Thanks to an Anonymous Donor | Milwaukee Art Museum Pressroom
The Museum received an anonymous $3.54 million gift to establish an endowment to support free admission for children in perpetuity.
mam.org
December 5, 2024 at 4:51 AM
Lower Wis. court threw out nearly all of Act 10, the GOP's signature anti-union law which devastated public sector organizing, local controls, workplace fairness, the teaching profession, & more. WI Sup. Ct. will hear GOP appeal; April race to replace a retiring liberal Justice will attract big $$.
December 4, 2024 at 4:32 AM
In Milwaukee's Lake Park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and dedicated in 1895 there are two great side-by-side white ash trees more than two hundred years old which have not succumbed to the emerald ash borer. You can see them in the distance, lower left, of a shot I took the other night.
November 28, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
November 21, 2024 at 12:16 PM
On the ravine-spanning Lions Bridge just steps in Milwaukee’s Lake Park from the restored North Point Lighthouse. The tower and a museum are open 1-4 p.m. on weekends.
November 23, 2024 at 3:29 AM
At 200+ years old, and standing tall against the emerald ash borer invasion, admire the oldest white ash trees in Milwaukee’s Lake Park. Shot this week. Tenacity, modeled.
November 21, 2024 at 5:38 AM
Hello, fellow Blue Badgers and friends hither and yon. Blue skies over Milwaukee and a healthy street ash tree several weeks ago.
November 18, 2024 at 5:52 AM