Pictures taken on walks from our house
Olbrich Botanical Gardens (1.5 miles from home)
(admission is free)
Thai Pavillion, a gift from Thailand to the University of Wisconsin. They
didn't have room for it so Olbrich took it. There's also a great view
of it from the bike path.
meadow flowers
Edna Taylor Conservation Park and Aldo Leopold Nature Center (Adjacent)
~2 miles from home.
frog.
It was a great day for frogs. I didn't realize the tadpoles got so
big before becoming frogs. They appeared to be in transition at this
time (June 29), all the frogs at different stages. At left is one that
looks more like a tadpole. At bottom right it looks more like
a frog. We must have seen a hundred frogs!
This one seems to be in transition. It has legs and a tail. Of
course I know nothing about this so I could be totally wrong. But it
was cool.
Frog lady.
A walk in Monona (about 5 miles total)
Downtown Madison
a bears fan! I don't care who they root for in the privacy of their
living room but do they have to flaunt it?
wow, a big (sea?) turtle at Schluter park (by the Bait & Ice Cream shop).
It was either burying its eggs (?) or getting ready to lay them (?).
Okay, once again, I have no idea. But after it did this, it scampered
back into the lake faster than I've ever seen a turtle go. I'd like
to see it race a rabbit. It was about a foot long!