Jul 30, 2011
Fun at the Rock County 4-H Fair
It was hot and humid, but I'm glad I made it to the Fair this year. In this video, you will see someone hosing down a goat and then herself. I almost asked her to sprinkle me!
Jul 23, 2011
Wild Life in Chicago
I was pleasantly startled in Chicago by a brilliant full moon that popped out of the clouds and blushed orange. You will see it at the end of this video.
Jul 16, 2011
Southern Wisconsin Sights
I’ve had the pleasure of working with a number of Wisconsin photographers, but none has traveled more than Galen R. Frysinger of Sheboygan.
I’ll bet you Galen has been around the world as many times as Mark Twain or more.. His photos are found in publications such as National Geographic.
Galen has supplied photos for a number of my videos including “Mark Twain’s Egyptian Journey.”
I have invited Galen to do a photo shoot of Janesville. He said it was a possibility. Meanwhile here are some of Galen’s photos of Southern Wisconsin.
Jul 15, 2011
Jul 8, 2011
Watching newspapers
“Who would have thought 25 years ago that we would be part of a video project for a newspaper?" asked a retired videographer I worked with at a Green Bay TV station. My old TV friend was letting me use some of his beautiful video in the Janesville Gazette.
I wanted to say something eloquent this week about how the Internet is changing newspapers, books and magazines... But a TV commercial says it better than I ever could.
Although it’s an iPad commercial, it sums up the amazing things that a lot of us are doing now with computers in general…Like when grandma and I see a telephone call from our Janesville fourth-grader calling on Skype.
Jul 6, 2011
Jul 5, 2011
Jul 1, 2011
Sandhill cranes in Walworth County, WI
I stopped by a farmer's field a few years ago to watch Sandhill cranes doing their wonderful jumping-wingflapping-floating mating dance. If I only had my camera.
This time I did when I saw parent Sandhills escorting their offspring in Walworth County.
Sandhills are like some of us in that they can live to be 80, stick with the same mate for up to 30 years, and fly to Florida for the winter.
The WI Dept. of Natural resources says females lay one or two eggs. Chicks are born in 30 days and have fuzzy yellow-brown feathers. Born in May, they fly by July. Families feed together on seeds, tubers, grasshoppers, snails, frogs, snakes, birds and mice. Cranes can be a problem for farmers when they pull up sprouting corn in spring and eat large amounts of field grain in the fall.
Birders love Sandhills and count them as they come back from Florida. They look for a wingspan of up to 8 feet!