At the Prairie Café...

... you can talk all afternoon.

(Video by Meade.)

At the Prairie Café...

...you can talk about whatever you want in the comments.

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That's a photo by Meade — taken today at 3:20 in the afternoon in the UW Biocore.

The Biocore — at 1:45.

Photo by Meade.

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At the Prairie Café...

... you can talk all night.

Photos all taken today at the UW Biocore.

At the Prairie Café...

... you can talk all night.

At the Biocore Prairie...

... you can write about whatever you want.

No sunrise photo this morning, though I did get out for today's sunrise. I let my phone battery die, so I was left using only my eyes to experience what was, today, a slow realization that the sun had already fully risen and I was seeing a very pale orange disc. How visible was it before I knew I was seeing it? The sneaky circle quickly brightened to the kind of deep solid orange that no one could miss.

Without a sunrise photo, I'm giving you 2 photos I took yesterday afternoon at 10 to 5. This is a section of the UW Biocore where they did a prescribed burn in the early spring. It was charred black not long ago, and these are the native plants that grew in — very lush and healthy. That's our beloved Lake Mendota in the background.

The lakeshore at sunrise and late afternoon.

6:24 a.m.:

The woods at 4:09 p.m.:

That's bloodroot. 

At the Saturday Night Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

We took a late-day walk in the "Bio-Core"...

In the background, you can see a bit of my favorite lake — Lake Mendota.

At the Prairie Café...

... stretch out into some late-summer conversation.

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At the Goldenrod Café...

... you can go down whatever path you want...

At the Prairie Café...

... let's take a closer look...



... at insect politics.

Out on the prairie...

... you can say what you think.

At the Wild White Indigo Café...

... you can choose your colors.

Prairie close-ups.

At the Gaylord Café...

... write about anything you like.

I accidentally had the camera on some crazy setting as we walked around our favorite state park, Governor Nelson. We were sober, but the camera was tripping.

On the Table Bluff segment of the Ice Age Trail.

Yesterday, in Wisconsin:

Getting there.

Escape from the Echinachea Café.

Today, out on the prairie in Governor Nelson State Park.

At the Restoration-In-Progress Café...

... you don't have to rest in peace. Talk about what you want.

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