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Love XC skiing with Wausau Nordic Ski Club, road biking with Wausau Wheelers, Marathon County Historical Society, geology, and reading avidly.
Northern lights over Wausau. The still photo captures the light much better than the video in my last post.
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#NorthernLights
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November 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Northern lights over Wausau. The still photo captures the light much better than the video in my last post.
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#NorthernLights
#outdoors
#Wisconsin
#nature
#NorthernLights
#outdoors
#Wisconsin
This video isn’t the best depiction of the northern lights, but turn the volume up all the way and listen to the coyotes yipping (plus a siren) during the first part. Don’t know what made them yip, but I like to think it was the northern lights.
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#Wisconsin
#outdoors
#nature
#NorthernLights
#Wisconsin
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November 13, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This video isn’t the best depiction of the northern lights, but turn the volume up all the way and listen to the coyotes yipping (plus a siren) during the first part. Don’t know what made them yip, but I like to think it was the northern lights.
#nature
#NorthernLights
#Wisconsin
#outdoors
#nature
#NorthernLights
#Wisconsin
#outdoors
Full moonrise over Wausau, Wisconsin. My sister-in-law, a nurse in Georgia, says, and I quote, “the crazies will be out tonight!”
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Full moonrise over Wausau, Wisconsin. My sister-in-law, a nurse in Georgia, says, and I quote, “the crazies will be out tonight!”
November 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Our burning bush and sugar maple coming in to fall glory.
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#flowers
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October 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Our burning bush and sugar maple coming in to fall glory.
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Dawn Staley’s “Uncommon Favor” is an inspiring, informative, and entertaining read. Go Gamecocks!
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#WNBA
#SouthCarolinaGamecocks
#WNBA
October 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Dawn Staley’s “Uncommon Favor” is an inspiring, informative, and entertaining read. Go Gamecocks!
#SouthCarolinaGamecocks
#WNBA
#SouthCarolinaGamecocks
#WNBA
September 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
With hundreds of pounds of plants in our gardens for the taking, the deer, those cervine gluttons, just have to eat most of the flowers on our one hardy mum plant. I suppose the stems are too rough for their delicate digestive tracts. Really annoying!
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September 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
With hundreds of pounds of plants in our gardens for the taking, the deer, those cervine gluttons, just have to eat most of the flowers on our one hardy mum plant. I suppose the stems are too rough for their delicate digestive tracts. Really annoying!
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#flowers
#bloomscrolling
#gardening
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#gardening
While most of our plants are fading, a rough blazing star, plenty of big leaf aster, and some New England aster have elbowed their way to the sunlight.
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#Wisconsin
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September 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
While most of our plants are fading, a rough blazing star, plenty of big leaf aster, and some New England aster have elbowed their way to the sunlight.
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#flowers
#gardening
#bloomscrolling
#Wisconsin
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My favorite coffee shop on planet Earth has won the Best Coffeeshop/Cafe award by City Pages in the greater Wausau area. The coffee, food, owners, staff, customers, and music—the whole vibe—are the best. Congratulations to Tucknee Coffee Company!
#Wausau
#MarathonCounty
#Wisconsin
#coffeeshops
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#MarathonCounty
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September 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My favorite coffee shop on planet Earth has won the Best Coffeeshop/Cafe award by City Pages in the greater Wausau area. The coffee, food, owners, staff, customers, and music—the whole vibe—are the best. Congratulations to Tucknee Coffee Company!
#Wausau
#MarathonCounty
#Wisconsin
#coffeeshops
#Wausau
#MarathonCounty
#Wisconsin
#coffeeshops
A late season Monarch caterpillar among first season Butterfly Weed.
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September 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
A late season Monarch caterpillar among first season Butterfly Weed.
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Two billion years ago there was no “Wisconsin.” Sediments eroded off the southern margin of the Superior craton of the Canadian Shield into an ocean where they settled and lithified. But now they lie just north of Wausau.
#geology
#earthscience
#nature
#rocks
#fossils
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#Wisconsin
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September 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Two billion years ago there was no “Wisconsin.” Sediments eroded off the southern margin of the Superior craton of the Canadian Shield into an ocean where they settled and lithified. But now they lie just north of Wausau.
#geology
#earthscience
#nature
#rocks
#fossils
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
#outdoors
#geology
#earthscience
#nature
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#fossils
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
#outdoors
I recently posted this close up image (left), but I neglected to post the normal distance image (right) for scale. Fossil trackway of Climactichnites in 510 million year old sandstone from Marathon County, now on the Riverwalk in Wausau.
#fossils
#rocks
#geology
#nature
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September 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I recently posted this close up image (left), but I neglected to post the normal distance image (right) for scale. Fossil trackway of Climactichnites in 510 million year old sandstone from Marathon County, now on the Riverwalk in Wausau.
#fossils
#rocks
#geology
#nature
#Wisconsin
#earthscience
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#geology
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#Wisconsin
#earthscience
This guy is a big part of the reason why we have so many deer that eat our hostas, asters, phlox, and just about every other plant.
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#flowers
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#Wisconsin
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September 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This guy is a big part of the reason why we have so many deer that eat our hostas, asters, phlox, and just about every other plant.
#nature
#wildlife
#gardening
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
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#wildlife
#gardening
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
The underdogs in our garden. While the blue lobelia proliferates, the cardinal flower seems to get overrun by everything. And New England Aster is the perennial first choice of the deer; don’t know how this spindly stalk escaped the deer.
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#gardening
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
#Wisconsin
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September 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The underdogs in our garden. While the blue lobelia proliferates, the cardinal flower seems to get overrun by everything. And New England Aster is the perennial first choice of the deer; don’t know how this spindly stalk escaped the deer.
#nature
#gardening
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
#Wisconsin
#nature
#gardening
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
#Wisconsin
I think we have a straggler here in the Monarch migration as our Monarchs in Wausau, Wisconsin, have been gone for about a week or so.
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#gardening
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#butterflys
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
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#gardening
#bloomscrolling
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#Wisconsin
September 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I think we have a straggler here in the Monarch migration as our Monarchs in Wausau, Wisconsin, have been gone for about a week or so.
#nature
#flowers
#gardening
#bloomscrolling
#butterflys
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
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#flowers
#gardening
#bloomscrolling
#butterflys
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
The most comically looking and ironically named flowers in our garden which are said to be non-allergenic: sneezeweed.
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September 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The most comically looking and ironically named flowers in our garden which are said to be non-allergenic: sneezeweed.
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#flowers
#gardening
#bloomscrolling
#wildlife
#Wisconsin
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#gardening
#bloomscrolling
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Today the Marathon County Historical Society broke ground in Wausau for the construction of the John and Carolyn Sonnentag Archive Center, a magnificent structure that will serve our archive and artifact needs for the next 50 years.
#history
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#Wausau
#Wisconsin
#historicpreservation
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August 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Today the Marathon County Historical Society broke ground in Wausau for the construction of the John and Carolyn Sonnentag Archive Center, a magnificent structure that will serve our archive and artifact needs for the next 50 years.
#history
#MarathonCounty
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
#historicpreservation
#history
#MarathonCounty
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
#historicpreservation
While walking along the River Walk in Wausau, I spotted what I believe to be a fossil trackway of Climactichnites in Cambrian sandstone about 510 million years old from the Blackberry Hill formation in Marathon County.
#fossils
#geology
#rocks
#earthscience
#biology
#nature
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
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#rocks
#earthscience
#biology
#nature
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
August 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
While walking along the River Walk in Wausau, I spotted what I believe to be a fossil trackway of Climactichnites in Cambrian sandstone about 510 million years old from the Blackberry Hill formation in Marathon County.
#fossils
#geology
#rocks
#earthscience
#biology
#nature
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
#fossils
#geology
#rocks
#earthscience
#biology
#nature
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
We are pleased to learn that Monarch caterpillars enjoy our Ironweed.
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#bloomscrolling
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August 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
We are pleased to learn that Monarch caterpillars enjoy our Ironweed.
#nature
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
#gardens
#gardening
#outdoors
#Wisconsin
#nature
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
#gardens
#gardening
#outdoors
#Wisconsin
A fine pair of Pileated Woodpeckers at our feeder. Now that I’ve removed the jelly feeder for the Catbirds and the hornets are no longer around to pester birds, the woodpeckers can enjoy suet at their ease.
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#gardening
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#Wisconsin
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August 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
A fine pair of Pileated Woodpeckers at our feeder. Now that I’ve removed the jelly feeder for the Catbirds and the hornets are no longer around to pester birds, the woodpeckers can enjoy suet at their ease.
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#wildlife
#birds
#birding
#gardening
#outdoors
#Wisconsin
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#Wisconsin
Not brightly colorful nor often seen, the Gray Catbird is one of my favorite summer migrants to Wisconsin. Here a pair take turns at their baths.
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August 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Not brightly colorful nor often seen, the Gray Catbird is one of my favorite summer migrants to Wisconsin. Here a pair take turns at their baths.
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#wildlife
#birds
#birding
#Wisconsin
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#birding
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A Monarch on Swamp Milkweed and an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on a Purple Coneflower in our garden.
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#nativespecies
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July 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A Monarch on Swamp Milkweed and an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on a Purple Coneflower in our garden.
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#flowers
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A bumblebee and a tiny, pollen-laden bee have agreed, however momentarily, to share a Purple Coneflower in our garden.
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July 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A bumblebee and a tiny, pollen-laden bee have agreed, however momentarily, to share a Purple Coneflower in our garden.
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#gardening
#flowers
#Wisconsin
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