2024 07 18
I’m writing this from my bed in our cabin up in Wisconsin’s Northwoods while I should be packing to head home. Allison’s family has been coming up here for roughly forty years now, the same with week in the same cabin with the same families. It’s quite remarkable, really! As a lifelong city boy, I’ve come to love these brief trips to the relatively-natural landscape, even though my highlights are always the bars and restaurant visits.
Last night was a perfect end cap and has me wishing to stay longer. We got back from dinner at Blink Bonnie, which is basically the boss level of supper clubs (if you know, you know). We then made a fire and roasted some s’mores while the skies cleared up and Brian assembled his massive telescope and aimed it at Saturn for a clear view of the planet and its rings fully visible to the naked eye. I grabbed my camera and started frantically making some nightscape images and before we knew it, it was 2am and well past time to go to bed.
Per usual after my trips up here, I’ll spend a few weeks dreaming & scheming about how we might be able to buy a cabin up here or spend more time up here. But now, I must pack my bags and head south with a potential stopover in Milwaukee to see firsthand for ourselves, with our own eyes, like Saturn far above us, how crazy the political landscape of this great country has become.
-Clayton
Life finds a way. Chicago, Illinois; June, 2024. © Clayton Hauck
I’m writing this from my bed in our cabin up in Wisconsin’s Northwoods while I should be packing to head home. Allison’s family has been coming up here for roughly forty years now, the same with week in the same cabin with the same families. It’s quite remarkable, really! As a lifelong city boy, I’ve come to love these brief trips to the relatively-natural landscape, even though my highlights are always the bars and restaurant visits.
Last night was a perfect end cap and has me wishing to stay longer. We got back from dinner at Blink Bonnie, which is basically the boss level of supper clubs (if you know, you know). We then made a fire and roasted some s’mores while the skies cleared up and Brian assembled his massive telescope and aimed it at Saturn for a clear view of the planet and its rings fully visible to the naked eye. I grabbed my camera and started frantically making some nightscape images and before we knew it, it was 2am and well past time to go to bed.
Per usual after my trips up here, I’ll spend a few weeks dreaming & scheming about how we might be able to buy a cabin up here or spend more time up here. But now, I must pack my bags and head south with a potential stopover in Milwaukee to see firsthand for ourselves, with our own eyes, like Saturn far above us, how crazy the political landscape of this great country has become.
-Clayton