Port Arend, 1959 ~ Just a snapshot around noontime today, out along N. Van Buren Ave. Don't know when anybody will clean up those weeds in the gutter in front of Murray Skynard's Little Eagle Press. #ModelRailroad #Railway #Oscale #Ogauge #Oscale #diorama #ScratchBuilt #Kitbashed

Reaching ~ Help! I'm becoming enamored of these shots where I crop in to places in the distant periphery, well beyond the resolution capabilities of my equipment. Out where my Pixel Phone runs out of pixels. #photography #PhonePhoto #twilight #bridges #GreatLakes #OurLittleTown

Don't Ask, I'm Not Tellin' ~ Keep your sacred places secret Keep your secret places sacred All too soon the madding crowd #Somewhere #Outdoors #CreekpronoucedCrick

Saturday Nightfalling ~ 'round here, last night #twilight #GreatLakes #OurLittleTown

Port Arend, 1959 ~ There's simply no end to the work to be done at the White Cliff Lime Co. More arms & legs, more chutes & ladders. More etc. , etc. Or not? #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway #Ogauge #Oscale #Diorama

meanwhile, in the east . . . Yes, I messed around with a perfectly good sky, but that's why the gods gave us pixel phones. Crop, pop, saturate, filter. Repeat. Repeat. #photography #digitalPhotography #PhonePhoto #PixelPushing

Our Little Town ~ With care, steel lasts a long time on the lakes. While the tugs in this lineup are beautiful in their rich reds & blacks & greens, their AVERAGE age is over 80 (!), so it feels right, sometimes, to present them in black & white. #TugBoats #SturgeonBay #GreatLales

Port Arend, 1959 All quiet down at the harbor now, but of course the aging Coast Guard 36' was kept pretty busy over the holiday weekend, with the usual bunch of drunken idiots trying to drown their families. None successful, so far as we know. #ModelRailroad #Oscale #USCG #GreatLakes #July4th

Behind Bars ~ My country 'tis of thy fences I'm singing; still, it's easy to get in if you're rich enough and white enough -- just a little less attractive than a few years ago . . . #Amerika #USat250 #MyCountryTis #HappyJuly4th

Closing Time ~ As the Fourth of July approaches, I'm sure I share the sentiments of most who live in High Tourist Zones when I echo the words of an old friend who said, "Close the damn bridge!" #tourism #SturgeonBay #GreatLakes #IndependenceDay #OurLittleTown #SteelBridge

Tapestry: Yellow-Headed Blackbird ~ Having fun with very bad photography. #DigitalPhoto #PixelPhonePhoto #BadResolution #Photography? #Birds #YellowHeadedBlackBird #Art?

Starlings in America ~ Although I'm a member of the greatest invasive species of all time, still, I gotta give starlings their due. Here's an extreme close-up of a detail in an old oil painting of mine. #OilPainting #Art #Starlings #MermerationOfOne #EuropeansInAmerica #Birds

Borders ~ Crossing the line . . . #photography #PhonePhoto #FoundArt #AbstractArt #imigration #emigration #borders

On the Water ~ Forgot my phone/camera for my walk today, so was forced to do a quick ink sketch of the yawl Stjarna upstaging the much larger schooner Utopia at the dock. (yep, I need a lot more practice!) #SturgeonBay #InkSketch #Utopia #Stjarna #GreatLakes #OurLittleTown

Water ~ At the Forestville Dam on the Ahnapee River. #Water #Photography #PhonePhoto #Composition

Iron & Asphalt & Herbs ~ #photography #PhonePhoto #FoundArt #composition

Update ~ The Sky is Falling! as shown in this brief cinematic interlude (with actual sound!): #photography #videography

Lighthouse Tour ~ No -- you can't tour IT -- instead, the lighthouse itself seems to be on tour. it's from Algoma and arrived recently in Sturgeon Bay by barge for reconditioning while the Algoma breakwater is rebuilt. #lighthouse #Algoma #SturgeonBay #LakeMichigan #GreatLakes

Port Arend, 1959 ~ This third 18" x 72" diorama of the possibly imaginary little Great Lakes city of Port Arend is beginning to have some substance, helped along by today's wonderfully rainy weather. #ModelRailroad #RailwayModel #Oscale #Ogauge #diorama

Port Arend, 1959 ~ Once again, Phil & Hazel Olson return on the doodlebug and are dismayed at the slow progress being made on various projects around town. #ModelRailroad #RailwayModel #Oscale #Ogauge #diorama

Port Arend, 1959 ~ Work continues (at a snail's pace) down at the lime works. And there's that curious, carrot-topped kid again! #ModelRailroad #RailwayModel #Oscale #Ogauge #diorama

RED ~ Yup. Sure is. What's it do? Dunno. Just sits there bein' red I guess. Pretty good at it, too. #RED #mystery #photography #antiquity #PixelPhonePhoto

Aurora Buickalis ~ A rarely seen phenomenon, I was lucky to capture this image. Keep your eye on the sky. #Buick #Aurora #DigitalPhoto #PhotoPhun #Photography

Sometimes ~ Yeah, sometimes I still think that Earth ain't a half-bad planet. May be worth saving. #Earth

Confrontation ~ Some kinda stand-off goin' on out there in the parking lot . . . #FoundArt #SturgeonBay #ArtPhoto #PixelPhonePhoto

In Town ~ A true star, Andrea Wittgens, in town early for the Steel Bridge Music Festival. Caught her last night at Muse. Hear her whenever & wherever you can. #SteelBridge #AndreaWittgens #SturgeonBay #OurLittleTown #Muse

ART ~ Who am I to argue? #FoundArt #photography #SturgeonBay #OurLittleTown

Random Violets & Blue Bridges #Abstract #Photoplay #PhonePhoto #PixelPushing

1%, maybe ~ I too briefly visited the Clipper City Model Railroad Club in Manitowoc, WI last Saturday and was blown away by the quality of modeling as well as the quantity. This photo represents less than 1%. Friendly people. Get there if you can. #ModelRailroad #HOscale #Manitowoc #ClipperCity

@ 109 . . . You heard me right -- this Great Lakes Towing "G boat" was built in 1917! Such a beautiful day I had to stop & sketch this classic on my walk. My first memory of a tugboat was one of her sisters, with bright red house over dark green hull. #TugBoat #GreatLakes #SturgeonBay #Louisiana