Timelapse: House Fire Practice

This was a practice burn of a house on North Military Ave. I wonder what this house did that they needed it to put it down ... other than being a jalopy house.

Ideal Awards Banquet Hotel Room

I took this photo from the hotel room the Ideal Awards had for the volunteers to change in. If you look closely on 11/07/09 it was 71 degrees in Milwaukee. Oh and again sorry Karl of Milwaukee Daily Photo, 2 minutes for Interference.

Menacing Moon

I took this photo at my dad's house. I remember the winds whipping the clouds by on that cold early afternoon in November.

The Lone Ranger

One lone red apple hanging on to life and limb.

Fall Color Up North ... Done With Mirrors

This is another of Tom's great photos up north. I love the fall color with snowy highlights and mirrored effect on the water.

Lewis J. Kuber - Long View

This is another of Tom's photos from the Fox River. This is the long view of the Lewis J. Kuber as it unloads concrete onto the pile.

Life of the River: River Revival

This is a photo of all four pieces of the River Revival sculpture by Bounnak Thammavong. Ironically a real tree is blocking some of the sculptured tree.

Life of the River: River Revival - Today

This is a photo of the "Today" portion of the River Revival sculpture by Bounnak Thammavong.

Life of the River: River Revival - Yesterday

This is a photo of the "Yesterday" portion of the River Revival sculpture by Bounnak Thammavong.

Life of the River: River Revival

This is another of Tom's photo's of the sculptures along the Fox River. This four piece sculpture is entitled River Revival and is by Bounnak Thammavong.

Life of the River: Renewal

I like this picture because of the way is shining through the sculpture. This is sculpture was part of the Life of the River project and is by Carrie Fonder.

Life of the River: Renewal by Carrie Fonder

This is the side view of Carrie Fonder's Renewal. I took this one on a nice but windy day before I cleaned the dirt off the image sensor of my camera(top left).

Life of the River: Renewal

This it Tom's photo of the steel Renewal sculpture. The photo was taken from the Fox River during a fishing trip.

Life of the River: Frog for Dinner

There's the frog! Despite the rust this is the newest of the sculptures, according to their web site, anyway. This piece is done by Stephen Fairfield and is located near downtown on the east site of the Fox River along the Fox River Trail.

Life of the River: Frog for Dinner

This is the photo of the same sculpture that I took earlier in the year ... when things were greener. Still can't really see a frog though.

Life of the River: Frog for Dinner

This is a photo of the Frog for Dinner sculpture along the East side of the Fox River. This photo was taken by Tom while fishing.

Life of the River: My House of Feather and Stone

This is a photo of the same sculpture that I took early this summer.

Life of the River: My House of Feather and Stone

Another of Tom's photo's taken from the Fox River. This is one of the bird related sculptures along the Fox River Trail. The sculpture is by Richard Taylor, made of aluminum and is named My House of Feather and Stone.

Speaking of bird related things, Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Life of the River: River Monolith

This monument is a closeup of the photo from yesterday and from the other side. It's essentially a two google earth maps of the east and west sides of Green Bay and using space to show the Fox River.

Life of the River: River Monolith From the Fox River

This is another photo from Tom while on the Fox River. The grey piece art along the trail in the left center of the photo is actually a map of Green Bay and the Fox River.

Life of the River: Johnson Insurance and the Coming Into Light Part II

Here's the photo of the flopping fish art (Coming Into Light) that I took earlier this summer.

Life of the River: Johnson Insurance and Coming Into Light

Another of Tom's photos from the Fox River. This is some flopping fish art (called "Coming Into Light") along the trail behind Johnson Insurance on the east side and near downtown.

I have a photo from the trail of this same art that I'll feature tomorrow.

Tugboat Indiana

Another of Tom's photo's from the Fox. According to Tom, these two tugboats don't seem to leave their mooring very often.

Downtown Green Bay

This another of Tom's photo from the Fox River. The main buildings in the photo (right to left) are the Bellin Building (white), the north face of the Meyer Theatre (tan brick), and the Brown County Circuit Courthouse (domed).

Neville Public Museum From the Fox River

Remember when I mentioned that I owed you a better picture of the Neville? Well Tom came through for me with a photo from the Fox River while fishing one afternoon. Thanks Tom.

Lewis J. Kuber Unloads Gravel

Another of Tom's photo's of the Lewis J. unloading it's gravel cargo to the pile along the Fox River.

Fishing By the Lewis J. Kuber

Another boat (technically a self unloading barge) the Lewis J. Kuber is unloading gravel for concrete. The large pile is just south of the mouth of the Fox River. You can see the west side of the Leo Frigo Bridge in the background.

Again, the photo is another of Tom's great fishing trip photos.

Fishing By the Duck on the Bay

Just another of Tom's photo's while out fishing on the Bay. I'm guessing the duck was drying itself off.

Bay Beach Pavilion

This is another of Tom's photos while aboard "ship" on the Bay of Green Bay. Specifically this is the Bay Beach Pavilion and Dance Hall. It's on the Bay Beach site and can be rented out for events.

Big Slide at Bay Beach

Another of Tom's shots from the Bay of Green Bay. On the northeast side of the city is a small amusement park that has been there since before I was a kid. It's called Bay Beach and the most expensive ride is 50 Cents.

This ride is the big slide and it's about 100 feet high. You slide down on a burlap sack and be sure not to touch any bare skin while speeding down ... the heat and friction will burn it right off. My favorite ride will forever be the Bumper Cars ... they are almost as much fun today as they were back then.

UW Green Bay From the Bay of Green Bay

The campus and main building of UWGB Campus from the Bay of Green Bay. Once again Tom took this photo on a fishing expedition.

There is also a Frisbee Golf Course on the campus near the main building in the center of the photo. Frisbee Golf is a pastime of mine, but I don't go as much as I'd like. My little brother is a very good Frisbee Golfer.

See, I Told You He was Fishing

Apparently he even caught one. It was a nice musky for that day, I think ... I'm not even sure that is a musky ... I'm not really an outdoorsman.

And in case you haven't guessed this is another of Tom's photos.

The Alpena Stern View

The Alpena was launched in 1942 as the Leon Fraser and previously carried iron ore.

Tom also took this photo on the same fishing junket.

The Alpena Arrives

Tom took this photo of the Alpena as it arrives with another load of concrete to drop off in Green Bay. The pile is pretty impressive ... you'll see it in one of my photos some day.

Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge

The Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge as seen from the Bay of Green Bay. This photo was taken by Tom on one of his fishing expeditions. Leo founded Paul's Pantry here in Green Bay, a very worthwhile charity.

Grapes, Crab Apples and Something Else

Another photo from my walk along the Fox River Trail. There looks to be three types of fruit overlapping in this area, grapes, crab apples and some other indigo fruit.

Stand and Deliver

Here's the side view of our larcenous piece of lawn art.

Stick Em Up

Just an interesting piece of lawn ornament I spotted walking the Fox River Trail one afternoon

Hot Dog Sign

Another photo from the Fox River Trail. At this point the trail cuts through someone's backyard. Obviously this person cares for the dogs that run and walk down this trail daily. I saw at least four dogs on the trail that afternoon. I'm sure it's appreciated on a hot day.

The Einstein Project: Anonymous

This must have been a butterfly that was auctioned from a past season of the Einstein Project. It's currently on a private dock somewhere along the Fox River Trail. It looks a little weathered but still caught my eye right away. I could not figure out the real name of this butterfly, so I called it Anonymous.

Nicolet National Bank

The Nicolet National Bank building in downtown Green Bay and borders the east side of the fox river. This building is new enough (2004ish) that I consider it to be part of the downtown revitalization project. The building is right across the street, just north, from the Bellin Building. Aon Consulting and Aon Risk Services also has offices here.

Theme Day: Doorways

This is the "soon to be" doorway of the cabin my friend Tom is building up north. Of all the pictures he gave me to put up, I'm guessing this the one he least expected to see.

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A Sushi Bridge

My family went out to the sushi restaurant they enjoy best, Little Tokyo, and had a bridge of sushi. Everything looked as was very good. You'll notice I said "they", because I don't like any sushi restaurant, because I don't like sushi. Yes, I've tried it, at my friend's favorite sushi place ... in Japan ... so it was good ... lets just say I'm a picky eater and leave it at that. The proprietor makes me an excellent chicken cutlet with rice.

Low Hanging Fruit

I took this photo earlier this summer while taking photos of the Canada Goose that hang out and eat the fallen apples.

If Detective Charlie Crews from the tv show Life was around, I'd say it was probably he'd have picked it. Also if you need something to watch consider renting the first season of Life ... I really enjoyed that show.

On Top of the Bridge

Today, we're on top of the bridge connecting East and West De Pere. De Pere is a suburb just south of Green Bay. The bridge is the Claude Allouez Bridge and it opened in October of 2007.

Under the Bridge

A semi-artsy photo today. I took this under the State Highway 172 bridge from the east side of the Fox River. The Fox River Trail is nice paved trail along the river on the east side that goes from downtown Green Bay to De Pere (and then to Greenleaf).

Also, the river looks a lot shallower at this point.

St. Norbert's Scored Shortly Afterwards

You can't really from this picture but in addition to the goalie stick on the ice in the foreground, the Foresters goalie also lost his blocker pad at the same time he lost the goalie stick. So it was just a matter of time until the Green Knights scored their fourth goal.

The St. Norbert College Green Knights took on the Lake Forest College Foresters at the Cornerstone Community Center tonight in a meeting of old division rivals and travel partners. Lake Forest recently switched conferences to the MCHA and it has really changed the schedule for the Knights this year. I'm sure you'll see some more pictures as the season goes on.

Admirals Goal!

First off, I have to apologize to Karl for this photo. First off I'm encroaching on his territory, Milwaukee Daily Photo and one of his favorite subjects, hockey. He was at the game as well, so I wouldn't be surprised if he has photos from this game on his blog.

This photo is from the Milwaukee Admirals home opener at the Bradely Center in Milwaukee on Friday. This is a photo of the game winning, power play, overtime goal by Center, Ben Guite. Ben was recently demoted to the Admirals from their NHL affliate, Nashville Predators, but he was golden in OT. Ben Eaves fired a shot on goal and Guite buried the rebound five hole (currently hidden in the goalie's pads).

Fort Howard Guardhouse Side View

This is the side view of the guardhouse. You can tell where the add on have been made. I think it would have been cool to own a house that was at one time the guardhouse for Fort Howard. Zachary Taylor must have spent some time there as well.

Local news reports that the guardhouse will be restored at Heritage Hill at a cost of around $300,000 and an educational program will be developed around it.

Condemned Building

This condemned building (from 1833) is more than that. Amazingly it's a piece of history.

Part of this building is the original guardhouse of Fort Howard (Run for a time by Zachary Taylor). Apparently it's been moved once, but it's still in the Fort Howard area of Green Bay. The city issued a Raze or Repair Order in December in 2008. Since then the city has decided to remove the building (for $20,000) and turn it over to Heritage Hill Historical Site. Heritage Hill has a few other of Fort Howard's original buildings so I'm sure the building will feel right at home.