Friday Music

From a reader comes this selection - a new anthem for rest of 2020.

By a double-header of blues rock legends - Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite.

Porch Setting

El Wisco Mexican Lager - Lakefront Brewery, Milwaukee.

Recommended by a reader.

Raising a toast to my brown-skinned, Spanish-speaking friends who work the dairy farms around here.

Braumeister

 click on the buss for a better view

One of my readers submitted the photo you see above.  While not winning any awards for an imaginative choice of name - the Independent Milwaukee Brewery was founded in 1901 more than several generations behind the founding of Milwaukee’s earliest breweries.   

Located on the South Side near the corner of 13th and Cleveland the best-known brand of the brewery was Braumeister.  As a matter of fact five different versions of Braumeister were brewed.  The company also produced at least another dozen brews including Deutscher Club Lager and Log Cabin Beer.   

In 1962 the company was sold to G. Heileman of La Crosse and the Milwaukee brewery was closed.  The Braumeister label was later sold to Peter Hand Brewing Co. of Chicago, which continued making and selling Braumeister until 1998.  

I thought my pal Braumeister would be interested in this walk down memory lane.  It’s probably a good thing there aren’t five versions of him.  That would be difficult to handle.  

You can learn more history here.

Whale of a Time

From  a reader.

This is a holographic projection of a whale. It is a photographic process that produces images thanks to the differences between several laser beams as the images are projected into the gym using a special camera.

There is not a drop of water in this room let alone a whale ...

Even More Fawns

Again, in Sinissippigal's yard...

Another Velvet Buck

Not from here - but one in Sinissippigal's yard.

Swamp Gas

SinississippiGal sent me this pic.

Cool, eh?

A Smashing Cocktail Recipe

Mix one part Wild Turkey with five parts Coca Cola.

Enjoy!

But never drink and drive...

click on images to enlarge

H/T to Lawyer's Bro for the pix.

Sunset On The Bay

Izzie emailed me this picture.

Rather characteristic of winter life on the peninsula - a village of ice shanties on the frozen waters of Green Bay.

Brutally cold when this shot was taken - we're sure that the ice drinkers were warm and snug in their shanties.

Winter On the Peninsula

You’d think that winter on the peninsula would be grim.

Not so.

There is hunting, ice drinking, snowshoeing, skiing, Packer football and just plain sitting by the fire with a good book.

Izzie emailed this picture of early freeze-up on Green Bay.

That dark line on the horizon is open water.

First Flight

SinissippiGal sent me this picture last week.

Here's what she has to report - Hope you're up for a few shots of my "grown up" Eaglets from tonight.

Today was the first flight day for them, and boy were they mobbed by the Eastern Kingbirds.

Sheesh, they learn how to fly and can't catch a break from the other birds!

I've seen shots like this, of course, but this is the first time I actually took shots like these.

Approach for Landing

SinissippiGal emailed me this cool action shot of a female eagle.

More Birds

As a child I haven’t any recollection of seeing a bald eagle. Although I saw a snowy owl perched on a utility pole once. Forty some years later I saw my second snowy owl – perched on a fence post only about a mile or so from the farm. I guess there was an owl eruption that winter because the vole population in Canada had crashed.
Now I see eagles almost year-round.


When I’m fishing I watch them fishing.

They nest along the peninsula’s coastline.

I saw one a couple of years ago on a fence post.

One of my readers caught this pair on camera just the other day.

That female poised to take flight looks like she belongs on the top of a flag pole.

The American Goldfinch

My most favorite bird is the chickadee.

For any of you bow hunters that are reading - a really cool trick is to take a half a handful of bird seed with you when you go afield on your hunt. After you have set-up in your stand take some of that seed and place it on the top of your cap. Those chickadees will alight on your bow and fetch seed from your cap.

It is a great deal of fun and a good way to while-away your time hunting if you can stand getting bird seed down the back of your shirt.

Anyway, my second most favorite bird is the goldfinch.

We have vast flocks of them on our thistle feeders all summer.

One of my readers sent this picture of a male goldfinch-




And I took this picture of a goldfinch nest. These canary-like birds nest later than most birds. The female builds the small cup of a nest lining it carefully with wild thistle down.

Pelicans

A couple of my readers are very much on the ball.

One of them was correct to point out that most people are unfamiliar with the news that pelicans are found in our waters.

Another reader was gracious enough to share some of her very cool Wisconsin pelican portraits.