1964 - Rolling Stones Play Milwaukee

On November 11th, the Rolling Stones first performed in Wisconsin, to a crowd of 1,274 fans at Milwaukee Auditorium. Although Brian Jones remained in a Chicago hospital with a high fever, the rest of the band performed. According to a dubious reporter for the Milwaukee Journal, "Chances are, few in the audience missed his [Jones'] wailing harmonica. Screams from a thousand throats drowned out all but the most insistent electronic cacaphony and the two-fisted smashes of drummer Charlie Watts." The reporter continued, "Unless someone teaches guitar chords to chimpanzees, the visual ultimate has been reached in the Rolling Stones. With shoulder length hair and high heeled boots, they seemed more feminine than their fans. The Stones make the Beatles look like clean cut kids. You think it must be some kind of parody - but the little girls in front paid $5.50 a seat." [Source: Milwaukee Journal November 12, 1964, p.14]

(From the Wisconsin Historical Society website)

crane

I was out in the back yard, and I heard a really loud and large bird. I walked over to the neighboring field to see if I could see it. I didn't at first, but then found it. It was on the far side of the nearest field. I ran back to the house for my camera. I ran back to the field. I ran back the house for my CF card. I ran back to the field. I got only three pics, and this is the only one where you can see anything.

I think it's a sandhill crane. It was huge. Seven-foot wingspan, I'd guess. It looked like an emu, when it was grazing.



I've got to get a longer lens. This 80mm just isn't cutting it.

just wait...

It was chilly and gloomy this morning. It was 67° in the house, but I didn't want to turn on the furnace because it's the end of May. Cyn went out for a paper, and said it was nice. I checked soon after and found it was in the low sixties. I turned on the furnace, thinking that if the temp in the house was going to be stable, it might as well be comfortable. The sun came out. My mom stopped over and said it was warm and muggy. I opened a couple of windows and the temp in the house went up a couple of degrees, though it's very damp.

Every time the wind switches from the west to the east, or vice versa, the temp changes five degrees. And the cooler air coming off the lake is drier.