Haliaeetus leucocephalus

I had a few hours to explore my local area. I randomly picked traveling to the Yellowstone Wildlife Area. Along the way I meandered along ridge lines of the Driftless Area. I saw a number of interesting locations but the best was when suddenly a juvenile Bald Eagle appeared in my windshield view. It was about 15' in front of me, and just above the top of the Jeep. I had been driving along the ridge slowly so we ended up keeping pace with each other for a while. Every so often it would glance back at me and I swear we made eye contact.

It wasn't the only eagle I spotted either. In all I must have seen at least five in all. The last was this beauty settling onto an oak.

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Hauge Log Church

Built in 1852, the Hauge Log Church was the first Norwegian Lutheran Church constructed in western Wisconsin. Adjacent to the church is a small cemetery where members of the first congregation are buried, including Arne Ruste who cut the first log used in building the church.

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Memmories of Light

On gray, dreary, periods of extended fog and dampness it's always good to remember that this too shall pass.

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Taur-e-Ndaedelos

It's another foggy day, especial up on Brigham County Park, a small hill just east of Blue Mounds State Park. My wife & I had planned to attend a company party in La Crosse but some unfortunate family events curtailed that plan. After dropping off the kid on her overnight excursion at a friends house we quickly drove to the park with only an hour left on the clock. Don't ask me how, but we found the entrance to The Mirkwood Forest!
" 'Stick to the forest-track, keep your spirits up, hope for the best, and with a tremendous slice of luck you may come out one day and see the Long Marshes lying below you, and beyond them, high in the East, the Lonely Mountain where dear old Smaug lives, though I hope he is not expecting you.' " (Gandalf)

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Stewart Count Park - White Pines

It's another unseasonably warm day here in Mount Horeb. The tops of the ridge where we live is thick with fog. I had exactly 20 minutes of time before the kid was released from school early. I ran down to the park, threw on my cleats and wander up a trail I'd not seen before. Casting about for a second I realized I was standing in exactly the right place for a photo. I love this little thicket of white pines.

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The Kill

A Great Blue Heron captures a nice sized trout along the shore of the Tionesta River in Forest County, Pennsylvania.

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Foggy Winter's Thaw

It's a foggy winter thaw here in Mount Horeb.

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