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“Square Foot” Blog
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High Water
Given my interest in flood photography and obsession with taking photos, you might ask whether I’ve done any of my own. The answer is not much. I imagine that most of the flood photography that I have collected (click here) was taken by people whose lives had been consumed by the rising waters. When my wife and I purchased our home in 2006, being well above the flood plain was first on our…
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My wife’s antique mall booth and how I became a poet of bric brac.
Here’s the gig, mostly: get up early and haunt estate sales, buy low and sell higher. And that’s it. I had fun accompanying her to some of these—even found some cool things incredibly cheaply—but, it’s over now. In the end, she kept it going for just over a year. She made money doing it—several hundred dollars a month over the Winter!—but it wasn’t really worth the effort. She shut down the booth at…
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Milwaukee, Gateway to the Devonian / Bokksu Shirasu Anchovies in Yuzu Pepper / La Curiosa Small Sardines with Lemon
(This is the fourth in a series of field reports and tinned fish reviews, forming a part of the series Frida and Alex’s Fossil Summer 2026. The first of these is here.) To date, Frida and Alex’s Fossil Summer 2026 has been stuck in the Ordovician and Silurian Ages. Most of the exposed rock formations in Eastern Wisconsin date back to those eras. There are a lot of reasons for this, the geological history…
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Some Icons
A traveler in these United States is bound to come across some serious icons, and I don’t just mean Herman the Worm. How can one not take a picture of Rocky Taconite? I made my wife do a huey and park across the street for this one. Who could have known that behind that smile lurked the quiet menace of global climate catastrophe? It would have been simpler to have grown up in…
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Fonfarek Glen County Park / Spiced Sardines in Olive Oil, Nuri (FAFS_03)
(This is the third in a series of field reports and tinned fish reviews, forming a component of Frida and Alex’s Fossil Summer 2026. The first of these is here.) Today we explored a third of the area’s best parks, Fonfarek Glen County Park, which opened to the public in 1991. The park has two major points of interest, a 30′ tall waterfall that can be beautiful (today, it was a mere trickle),…
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Music that’s more fun to play than to listen to
(The night that a clearly intoxicated woman wandered into Kavarna from off the street and sang a blues song with Lil’ Rev. It was fine, until it wasn’t and we had to ask her to leave. This photo doesn’t really have anything to do with the topic, but it deserves to be on the internet.) I think that, in most cases, music is more fun to play than to listen to. There’s a…