Picture of the Day for July 23, 2014

You never know what you might find on a winding road, especially on a Wisconsin Rustic Road. This year is the 40 year anniversary of Wisconsin’s Rustic Roads program which have roads with outstanding natural features along its borders such as rugged terrain, native vegetation, native wildlife, or include open areas with agricultural vistas which singly or in combination uniquely set it apart from other roads.

I have a lot of miles to travel to cover all the Rustic Roads since there are 115 designated Rustic Roads spanning more than 665 miles through 59 counties.

Cute Red Shed

Cute Red Shed

Picture of the Day for July 22, 2014

I wake up with a rooster tail hairdo but this chicken has more than I get! The Silkie chicken (named for the fluffy plumage, which is said to feel like silk) has an odd looking head and hairdo. The breed has several other unusual qualities, such as black skin and bones, blue earlobes, and five toes on each foot, whereas most chickens only have four.

Bad Chicken Hairdo

Bad Chicken Hair Doo

Picture of the Day for July 20, 2014

The light from the Raspberry Island Lighthouse tower’s fifth-order, fixed lens was exhibited for the first time on July 20, 1863, shining its beacon on the Lake Superior waters in the Apostle Islands.

When built in 1862, Raspberry Island Lighthouse was a two-story, rectangular dwelling with a square tower rising from the center of its pitched roof for the single lighthouse keeper and his family.

As the workload increased with the addition of a fog horn, the old lighthouse was greatly expanded in 1906 and converted into a double dwelling with room for two families and an unmarried assistant. The head keeper occupied the first and second stories on the south side of the lighthouse, what was essentially a three-bedroom dwelling, while the first assistant had the ground floor on the north side and the second assistant three rooms in the upper floor.

Raspberry Island Lighthouse

Raspberry Island Lighthouse

Picture of the Day for July 19, 2014

Area youth have been busy getting their animals ready to exhibit at the local county fair this week and that includes washing their cows and pigs. All that washing creates water running in the drainage ditches and that is a super strong magnet for little boys who love to run through the water or test out how waterproof their shoes really are!

Where There is Water, There are Boys

Where There is Water, There are Boys