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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hello, fellow Blue Badgers and friends hither and yon. Blue skies over Milwaukee and a healthy street ash tree several weeks ago.