The local paper ran an article by Rebecca Loroff of the Appleton Post-Crescent paper discussing the website "Bird Cast". It is run in part of the Cornell University Ornithology Lab, along with the University of Colorado and the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. She reports that radar found that more than 48 million birds crossed Wisconsin migrating south on the night of Tuesday, August 30.
Fall officially comes with the autumn equinox at 8:04 PM, Central Daylight time, on the late evening of Sept. 22. Tree color, fall hunting, crisper temperatures and schools starting combine to make many people feel that autumn is a wonderful time of year. At the moment of the equinox, the sun will be exactly at the mid-point between summer and winter.
On a different subject, the local Riverfront Art Gallery, located in Pfifffner Park near the Point bridge across the Wisconsin River, is running an exhibit of local photography. Photography has been important in my life but it has suddenly bloomed with smartphones. In many cases, your average citizen can not only whip out her camera and snap a good color (!) photo but can just as quickly send the picture all over the place. You may recall that our internet was created by scientists who needed to share data and by the military who wanted to be able to stash important records in too many places for an enemy to destroy them all. Photography, including videos with motion and sound, is part of everyday life these days, regardless of whether you can also draw and paint.
