Posts tagged #Monona

Olbrich Park

 

Evening pictures

As I have mentioned earlier there are a lot of parks around this town. Sometimes in the mornings I go out for a run and usually run through this park called Olbrich Park. It's pretty large, right by the water and there are tons of wildflowers at the edge to the lake. 

 
 

The other evening I went there with this photography group, and it was perfect. I hadn't really been out there with my dslr camera and I managed to snap some pretty pictures.

 
 

The sunset created such a beautiful light, it was a perfect evening for photography!

 
 

Where do you usually go to take some photos?

 
Posted on August 14, 2016 by Ann Rumbleinthearctic and filed under Photography, Wisconsin, Madison Life and tagged Olbrich Park Madison Wisconsin Lake Monona water sailing capitol Park Nature 2016.

Bad weather?

 

July 21:

    Ever since I got here it's been hot, like really hot. Ok, I know that a lot of people are used to temperatures up in the 90's and above combined with humidity up towards 90%, me? not so much. I am so happy that we bought an AC right when I got here, because I don't think I would have been able to survive otherwise. I like it cool, I love sweater weather, and this is everything but sweater weather. 

    We seem to have these high pressure storms, where the heat is always combined with some sort of rainstorm. Makes it hard to dress for hot temperatures and rain, I am definitely not used to that. W and I got a metrological weather station for Christmas that measures wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, rain accumulation and rate, and humidity and temperature of course. It's been really cool to have it now when we've had these rainstorms to see how much rain we get. Usually it says "it's raining cats and dogs". Madison is about the same latitude as southern France, so for someone who never lived more south than say the southern part of Canada (cause that is right about where the latitude of Cranfield in UK is, and of course, Stockholm Sweden which is approximately southern part of Alaska, and then of course, Fairbanks Alaska, Madison is far far south. Fairbanks do get hot in the summertime, I mean, we've had weather up in the 90's before, but generally that doesn't last very long, and it's usually very dry, so not the same type of heat that we experience here. I only had one pair of shorts when I moved here, yeah one pair, a climbing pair. Well, and one pair of running shorts. But as you can understand I went shopping for more after a few weeks in this heat. Best money spent in a long time, and I came home with 6 different pairs of shorts. 

 
 

    As I have mentioned earlier Madison lays in (on?) an Isthmus, and we have two lakes on either side, Monona and Mendota. We usually swim in Monona, and while it is definitely not clear, it has been semi OK. Yesterday I biked by the lake and eek what a smell, I was just thinking on the bike ride that it would be nice to maybe go for a swim. But that smell, not fresh lake smell, but yeah, algae. There were people over there swimming and having fun in the water, but I don't know, I am a little skeptic. The first three pictures below are of Lake Monona and the fourth one is Lake Mendota. 

 
Posted on July 24, 2016 by Ann Rumbleinthearctic and filed under Madison Life, Wisconsin and tagged Summer Madison hot summer Photography with Iphone culture latitude summer days storm summer storm Biking Lake Monona Swimming Bathing rainstorm regnstorm raining utlandssvensk Wisconsin Weather 2016.

Monona and Mendota

 

Isthmus

    Madison is this cute little town tucked in right between two large lakes (well everything is relative right?). The whole town is stretched between these two lakes, an isthmus (näs på svenska).

 
 

    People talk about the east side and the west side of Madison, we live on the east side. There are several small neighborhoods and completely impossible to NOT find a little small park or something alike. There are wildflowers everywhere, lovely beautiful wildflowers. 

 
 

The Capitol

    All roads lead to the capitol, this large building with a square around it. Every Saturday in the summertime there is a farmers market around the square, and no matter how early you get there it's always crowded. On Wednesdays there is a free concert out on the square, and people "reserve" their spot with blankets already early in the morning (even though the "rule" says you are not allowed to reserve your spot until 3pm). It kind of reminds me of a charter hotel in the Mediterranean, where most tourists "reserve" their sun chair already 5 or 6 am, even though you are technically not allowed to do this. 

 
Posted on July 14, 2016 by Ann Rumbleinthearctic and filed under Madison Life, Wisconsin and tagged Monona lake lakes isthmus näs sjö sjöar stad town city city life Madison Wisconsin utlandssvensk Mendota 2016.