Quivey's grove again, looking across the same room in the other direction. The weather-worn timbers, no doubt salvaged from a nearby dairy barn gone derilect, are all just for effect, but it's a very pleasant effect indeed.
The original stone outbuilding, seen in the background, is finished in the same way.

There was music playing but not too loudly to drown conversation, thank you.

The food's delicious, by the way. Simple, as the ketchup bottle on the table will testify, but tasty. I had the ruben. There just aren't enough dishes on anybody's lunchtime menu with sauerkraut, so I take it when I can get it (what the hell, it's a harmless passion and the only woman who'll kiss me doesn't seem to mind). Unfortunately, their ruben wasn't dressed with sauerkraut, but a pickled substitute. I liked it anyway.

Nothing soaks up the sun's rays like a cat

Rarely so discomposed, Boo sprawled in a sunny patch at my feet and purred with abandon, begging for a pet. How could I say no? Moments later, her ears scratched to perfection and tummy rubbed smooth, she burrowed her way into a folded blanket and disappeared, where she would stay until she needed another pat down or a sunny recharge. O, to be a cat.

This is why we have cats.



Tom asked us, "Why do you have them?" Because a nap in a comfy chair is a thousand times better when you have a warm cat purring softly on your tummy.

The early morning sunrise on the capitol.



There must be an optical illusion in effect here, because the capitol appears to tower over me even when I'm taking these photos from the seventh floor window of the building where I work. On reviewing these photos, it seems rather much smaller.

The sitting man casts a long shadow in the afternoon hours.

A New Window Arrangement at Taylor's



They usually have some kind of theme ...

... if I could only put my finger on it.

It'll come to me if I study it long enough.

Hmmm ...

Hands-Down Winner: Ugliest Building in Madison



The United States Court House, behind the Overture Center.

Nothing says 'federal bureaucracy' like a megalithic purple building sporting a Doctor Evil laser beam in the forecourt and knobby, fire-engine red railings as big as elephant turds. If there's an uglier building in Madison, I haven't run across it yet.

State Street's World-Famous Triangle Market

"Tours Daily - Free Admission."

You've heard about it - well, here it is!

Lion's head lamp stands flank the entrance doors of the state capitol.

Field Trip!



School children file into the Overture Center in downtown Madison.

Downtown Madison's Triangle Buildings are too cool!



The Jackman Building on the corner of Carroll and Hamilton Streets.

The Baskerville Building is right next door.

Main entrance to the Jackman Building.

Transom window of the Jackman Building from inside the lobby.

Riding the storm out ...




The stick man sits out rush-hour flurries Friday evening on the roof in capitol square.

Home again, home again, jiggedy-jog



Halted at the intersection of Williamson and Baldwin Streets, in traffic-stopping citywide flurries.

Who are those guys?




The south wing of the state capitol on a gray day.

Overcast brings cold, gray days back to Madison.




A barren oak tree on the lawn of the capitol. Grace Episcopal in the background.

Derelect pump house and vaneless windmill, Cottage Grove, Wisconsin.