Stoughton, McFarland, and Who Knows Where
November 5, 2023
These rather random photographs wrap up the souvenirs of my September visit to Wisconsin.
1 The concrete at the bottom of the wall covered in corrugated metal (see the October 24 post) is decorated with marks of some life form (I think), maybe mold. The flowering plants in front are a woodland species (Eupatorium rugosom, recently renamed Ageratina altissima, also known as white snakeroot) but seem perfectly happy in their semi-urban home.
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4 This could be the door shown in the older post’s first or second photograph—or another door in that wall altogether. Memory isn’t serving.
5 Across the street from the building with the corrugated wall is a repurposed building with remnants of its former life.
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7 During our Wisconsin visit we went to McDaniel Park, in McFarland, to pick up the long boardwalk of the Lower Yahara River Trail. I expected most of my photographs to be of plant life. But this is the only keeper shot of pure vegetation.
8 While the vegetation (white snakeroot again) was the focus of this photograph, what made it interesting was the riprap surrounding the plant.
9 What interested me the most was the rust variations where the guardrails met iron posts
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Romancing Reality 