Authentic Wisconsin

Wisconsin Made Products and Distinctively Wisconsin Places and Events

Wisconsin Wildflowers.

Wisconsin Wildflowers

Official symbols of the State of Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Symbols

Lake Wingra Photo Blog.

Lake Wingra Photo Blog

Lake Wingra Haiku Walk.

Haiku Walk

Bees & Blossoms.

Bees & Blossoms

Famous Wisconsinites

Interesting facts about the State of Wisconsin such as Ripon being the birthplace of the Republican Party.

Wisconsin Facts

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Wisconsin Made Products

Spring:

A beaver calling card by cattails on Lake Wingra on March 9, 2023.

Above: A beaver calling card by cattails on Lake Wingra on March 9, 2023.


Wisconsin Spring Ephemerals.

nowdrops emerging in woods off of Arbor Drive on February 15, 2023.

nowdrops emerging through the snow in woods off of Arbor Drive on February 19, 2023.

Above: I usually don't highlight Spring Ephemerals until March but this year I came across Snowdrops emerging on February 15, 2023, and again through the snow on February 19, 2023.


Skunk Cabbage emerging in UW-Madison Arboretum on February 19, 2023.

Skunk Cabbage emerging in UW-Madison Arboretum on March 1, 2023.


Above: Skunk Cabbage mottled maroon, hood-like leaf (spathe) emerging in UW-Madison Arboretum (2/19/23). The spathe will eventually open and reveal an egg-like structure called a spadix. The flowers (spathe and spadix) appear before the green leaves.



Winter Aconite in yard behind Gates and Brovi in Madison, Wisconsin on March 7, 2023.


Above: Winter Aconite (3/07/23).



Crocus in yard near Agawa Path in Madison, Wisconsin on March 8, 2023.


Above: Crocus (3/08/23).



 

Lake Wingra on March 20, 2023 the first day of Spring.

Above: Lake Wingra on March 20, 2023 the first day of Spring. Windy. Ice off of lake except by Vilas Park.


Lake Wingra on March 21, 2023.

Above: Lake Wingra on March 21, 2023.


Two Sandhill Cranes in Lake Wingra cattails after big snow on March 10, 2023.

Above: Two Sandhill Cranes in Lake Wingra cattails after big snow on March 10, 2023.


Winter in Wisconsin


From Lake Superior to Lake Geneva – from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River – Wisconsin offers a variety of Winter activities.



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