And yes - I am so laughing at the West Coast as they have major storms all lined up to hit them in the next week or so. I believe 5 storms, BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM. Finally we get the good weather (if you call highs NEAR 30 good, still 5 degrees above average).
Here is the current weather map.
The fog (yellow) over our area shows where the snow cover is as the warm air over the snow is creating fog.
A couple of new blogs are listed on the left - one is from a new friend Tony Bynum who contacted me Monday and we talked for about an hour about photography. He lives in Glacier Natl Park and is a very big time professional (Natl Geo, Field and Stream and nature mags plus his own gallery and so forth) Glacier Park Photographer .
The other one is Josh's new blog A Firefighters Tale which focuses on Josh's new Firefighting adventure. He got his first REAL call to duty last night!
In other photo news I'm looking into printing on Aluminum. From what my new friend Tony says, it's like the first time you saw HD TV, the aluminum is an amazing thing to print photos on as it brings out colors and depth you have never ever seen on paper. ALTHOUGH - it's a little more expensive LOL
-----------------------------------
Friday I was at a Home Brewers meeting, also called the Future Alcoholics of America group and we were talking about Brandy Old Fashions and Wisconsins love affair with brandy. So I thought I would get the the facts. According to Korbel the #1 Brandy producer only 33% of all Brandy produced comes to Wisconsin. HOWEVER, the District of Columbia and Minnesota per capita out drink Wisconsin boozers.
Brandy was actually accidentally invented during the 16th century by Dutch traders who found they could ship more wine by removing most of the liquid.
If you want to hear something hilarious check out this bit by Louis Black - BE WARNED - he will use the F-Bomb like it's going out of style but it's pretty funny about Wisconsin! hhhhhh
-------------------------------
February 6th is the First Columbus Carriage Classic on Ice, also called The Columbus Sleigh Rally. More on that when we get closer and I have something I can cut and paste.
OH - for all the readers that have been unable to get to my photo site I now have a mirror non-flash site. Try out http://melottephotoimagery.com/ you should be redirected to the non-flash site. Let me know how that goes as I have flash and can not see it.
Rod
I love Brandy! Brandy Manhattan dry with olives.... I call it my Wisconsin martini!
ReplyDeleteloved the Lewis Black rant-he is hilarious (we saw him last year at the Overture and just rolled)
ReplyDeleteI think one of his comedy albums was recorded in Madison but not sure which one. If you get a chance to see him go, his political rants are legendary.
deppfan - seen him twice and he is hilarious!! Was Steven Wright also (whatever happened to HIM) and Steve Martin in his prime . . a long long time ago.
ReplyDelete