Good morning.

Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 27. Sunrise is 7:10, and sunset is 4:20, for 9 hours, 10 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 19.8 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1879, the Humane Society of Wisconsin is organized in Milwaukee: “Inspired by Henry Bergh, a New York City philanthropist, and his Humane Movement, the state Humane Society was formed to protect both animals and children. However, with the formation of child protection laws in the early 1900s, the Humane Society of Wisconsin began to focus primarily on animal protection.”

Yesterday’s post was meant to be a video of the Royal Society Publishing Photo Competition 2024. That video was only on YouTube briefly, as the Society later removed it. Instead, I went back a year and updated with the 2023 winners (equally beautiful) from Facebook. Today, because persistence can be a good trait¹, here are the 2024 winners as posted on Facebook:

See Nasa’s spectacular new images of Jupiter:

1. In Whitewater, as change is slow and some are obstinate, persistence is also a useful trait of criticism: one returns to a topic again and again, sometimes across years. No force is so powerful and decisive as attrition. ↩︎

Good morning.

Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 36. Sunrise is 7:09, and sunset is 4:21, for 9 hours, 11 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 12 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM.

On this day in 1943, President Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.

Update, Wednesday morning — The 2024 winners are down on YouTube right now, so we’ll go with the 2023 winners — Something of a palate cleanser today — the Royal Society Publishing Photo Competition 2023:

Coyote prowls NYC streets: