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Daily Bread for 12.5.24: Now, the Royal Society Publishing Photo Competition 2024

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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. ↩︎

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Daily Bread for 12.4.24: Royal Society Publishing Photo Competition 2023

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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:

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Daily Bread for 11.24.24: Sandhill Cranes in Grantsburg & a View of Devil’s Lake State Park

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Good morning.

Sunday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 47. Sunrise is 6:58, and sunset is 4:24, for 9 hours, 26 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 35.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1971, during a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.

Over at Vimeo, documentary filmmaker and photographer Lorie Shaull recently published Sandhill Cranes at Crex Meadows Wildlife Area in Grantsburg, Wisconsin:

At Instagram, photographer Andy Merkel offers a view of Devil’s Lake State Park:



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Daily Bread for 8.12.24: From Walter Chandoha, 1962

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Good morning.

Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 79. Sunrise is 5:59, and sunset is 7:59, for 14h 00m 10s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 48.8 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets at 6 PM.

On this day in 1851,  Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.

Cats, because one can afford to be relaxed.

Photo by Walter Chandoha, 1962:


Not to be underestimated:

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Daily Bread for 1.14.24: The Mysteries

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 Good morning.

Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 2. Sunrise is 7:22 and sunset 4:45 for 9h 22m 36s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 13.5% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1952, NBC‘s long-running morning news program Today debuts.

The Mysteries:

The vision came to Krystle Wright in a dream: a bird’s-eye view of BASE jumpers in flight over a stark desert landscape. When she awoke, the adventure photographer resolved to make that vision into reality. And with that, the dream turned into an obsession — one that led her on a four-and-a-half-year journey of failed attempts, uncooperative weather, disappointments and inward examination. The Mysteries follows a tenacious, and perhaps crazy, quest to chase down an elusive image and provides a glimpse into the kind of singular passion that drives people to reach their goals, regardless of what stands in the way.

See also krystlewright.com and Krystle J. Wright on Instagram.

Volcano erupts near Reykjavik forcing evacuation of residents:

A volcano has erupted north of the south-western Icelandic town of Grindavik near the site of a previous eruption in December, the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) said. Seismic activity had intensified overnight and residents of Grindavik were evacuated at about 3am (0300 GMT) on Sunday, the Icelandic public broadcaster RUV reported. “A crack has opened up on both sides of the dikes that have begun to be built north of Grindavik,” the MetOffice wrote. Live images showed jets of glowing orange lava spewing up against the dark winter sky. This is Iceland’s fifth volcanic eruption in two years, the previous eruption occurring on 18 December in the same region south-west of the capital Reykjavik.

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Daily Bread for 10.28.23: Wisconsin Life | Holga Photography

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 Good morning.

Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 46. Sunrise is 7:24 and sunset 5:52 for 10h 27m 27s of daytime. The moon is full with 99.9% of its visible disk illuminated.

  On this day in 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.

 Wisconsin Life | Holga Photography:

Cameron Gillie creates artistic photos using a Holga, a cheap plastic camera.

This Man Drives a Burger To Work:

Our latest contributor has driven the wackiest looking vehicles. Literally. We’re talking burgers, pencils and even…a snooker table. In Hyderabad, India you can find the world’s first and only handmade wacky car museum called Sudha Cars Museum. Meet Sudhakar Kanyaboyina, the mastermind who from the age of 14, turned his imaginative designs into bicycles and wacky cars. With hundreds of ambitious and creative designs, including the worlds largest tricycle, he eventually had enough to open his own museum with his daughter. His drive for creating the world’s wackiest cars isn’t exhausted yet and we know you’ll be revved up for this Great Big Story.