Society

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can talk all night.  That's a photo by Meade, and if you look closely, you can see me out there on the Lake Mendota ice. Here's the picture of the sunrise I was taking: [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Photography, Law, Sunrise, Meade, Lake Mendota, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade

"What's the avocado tree's name? (I have forgotten). It's looking pretty large."

Said MadisonMan, in the comments to the post with video of Meade grinding hard red winter wheat. Meade answered "Arthur" with a link to "Recurring features in Mad (magazine)" (Wikipedia), and then, later, took this picture of the tree and me.   I'm there, I suppose, for scale. The hat is not an affectation, but a needed shield for my eyes as I work in front of the big window, but it's funny to see it in the picture, because I just finished writing a post on the for the artist Barry Le Va, and...
Tags: Art, Utah, Law, Wikipedia, Plants, Hats, Arthur, Meade, Ann Althouse, MadisonMan, photos by Meade, off-blog Althouse, Barry Le Va, Said MadisonMan, Le Va

At the Snowface Café...

 ... go ahead and talk all night. [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Law, Snow, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade

I finally made it out to see the sunrise once again.

 Had not made it out since February 2. Just too cold! And I only need it to be feels-like 9° to be willing to do it. I've done these sunrise runs since September 2019, and — not counting when we were out of town — I'd only ever missed an occasional day, maybe 2 days once or twice. I think I've missed more days this February than in all the other time combined. Ah, well! I was happy to get out.  [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Photography, Law, Snow, Sunrise, Lake Mendota, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade

At the Marigold Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want. [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Law, Flowers, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can talk all night. And here's a picture of me on my 70th birthday, ice skating: Photo by Meade. And thanks to all who wished me a happy birthday. [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Photography, Law, Sunrise, Skating, Meade, Lake Mendota, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade, off-blog Althouse

At the False Indigo Café...

  ... you can write about whatever you want. [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Law, Plants, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade

At the Sunlight Café...

  ... you can shine all night.  (Photo of me, by Meade.) [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Law, Meade, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade, hairstyles. off-blog Althouse

"Joe is a healer, a uniter, a tested and steady hand, a person whose own experience of loss gives him a sense of purpose that will help us as a nation reclaim our own sense of purpose, and a man with a big heart who loves with abandon."

In that one crowded sentence, Kamala Harris — in her victory speech last night — stated the theme for Biden's presidency.  I see the laying-on-of-hands concept that we were talking about yesterday. Remember? The writer in The Atlantic — Franklin Foer — talked about Joe's "effort to heal... to wrap himself around others in mourning." He saw "something religious in this laying-on of hands... an act of communion." Because we are "desperate" and Joe is the "parental figure," what is required of us...
Tags: Law, Dogs, Atlantic, Language, Biden, Franklin Foer, Kamala Harris, Joe, Kamala, Foer, ACD, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade, Religion Substitutes, Biden the healer

Meade votes... second in line.

He arrived about a half hour before the polling place opened. I was out doing my sunrise run, but I drove past the polling place on my way home. Didn't see many people. I think this is a neighborhood where people would tend to vote early, so the open spaces don't mean lack of excitement and are, of course, good for resisting COVID. If you're wondering what "Protected Count" means, it's just the total number of ballots that have ever been fed through that particular machine. The "Public C...
Tags: Voting, Law, Meade, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade

The chimney dandelion.

  Photo by Meade. I don't go on the roof! Write about whatever you want in the comments. [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Law, Plants, Meade, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade

With a big spot of dawn sun shining on my hair, I point at a rainbow.

Photo by Meade: Photo by me, seconds later: [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Photography, Law, Sunrise, Rainbows, Meade, Lake Mendota, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade

Your blogger at dawn.

Photo by Meade. [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Law, Sunrise, Meade, Lake Mendota, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade, off-blog Althouse

I photograph the sun and a swimmer.

Photo by Meade.My photo (a bit later): [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Photography, Law, Sunrise, Swimming, Meade, Lake Mendota, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade

A clever (or puzzling) sign.

Photographed by Meade today. It's kind of hard to put it together, what with the disappearing "E." And once you see that "Bye Don," you have to wonder what exactly does it mean? To me, it's saying you're not really for Biden — you don't want that on you — but you just want to say "bye" to Donald Trump (who never gets called "Don," but... whatever). [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Law, Signs, Biden, Donald Trump, Don, Meade, Ambiguity, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade, Trump 2020

Eminently guessable: What did this fisherman say to me?

Photo taken at 5:30 this morning. Meade took this picture from the car: [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Photography, Law, Sunrise, Meade, Lake Mendota, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade

At the Clear Speech Café...

... you can be as subtle as you like. Meade took those photos today on University Avenue — the main thoroughfare on the West Side of Madison. [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Law, Signs, University Avenue, Meade, Ann Althouse, Dirty Words, Swastika, photos by Meade, Men In Shorts, President Trump, West Side of Madison

Your blogger at sunrise.

Photo by Meade. [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Law, Sunrise, Meade, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade

Sunrise, 5:32.

Actual sunrise time, 5:31.Photo by Meade. [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Law, Sunrise, Meade, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade

A slightly woozy sunrise panorama.

By Meade. I am in this picture, by the way. Near that even harder to see red-hatted man. Click the image and click again to enlarge.A third click gets you even closer, and the look of the ripples in the water gives you some idea of how the Apple software stitches the photos together to make the panorama. It's some kind of complicated geometry. Can anyone explain it? [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Law, Sunrise, Landscapes, Meade, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can write about anything you want.Meade took this picture of me looking at the sunrise at 5:24.And let me remind you about the Althouse Portal to Amazon. [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Amazon, Law, Sunrise, Meade, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade

The Apple Store in Madison is chicly sculptural, boarded up in black.

In normal times, that black expanse is all sparkling clear glass. [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Apple, Law, Architecture, Madison, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade

The re-closening.

[Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Law, Dogs, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade, off-blog Althouse

Sunrise run.

[Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Law, Sunrise, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade, off-blog Althouse

5:44 a.m.

[Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Law, Sunrise, Lake Mendota, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade, off-blog Althouse

Very windy in Madison today...

A classic view from the Heights: [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Law, Madison, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade

Peace... You matter...

Rocks found in the Lakeshore Preserve yesterday and photographed by Meade... ... who took some trouble to line up my yellowness. [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Art, Law, Yellow, Meade, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade

At the Trout Lily Café...

... you can talk about whatever you like.I was so pleased to see the wildflowers back in my favorite woods! The trout lilies have decided to grow in a way that we humans see as upside down. Meade got the idea to get underneath and photograph the flower from our idea of the front side (which let sky shine through): [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Photography, Law, Flowers, Meade, Ann Althouse, photos by Meade, Trout Lily Café

At the 6 Feet Café...

... you can talk about whatever you like. [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Coronavirus, Etiquette, photos by Meade, Signs

This is not a window.

A new vantage point, opened in Meadhouse just now.UPDATE: I loved the temporary vista, but now: [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Real Estate, Law, Ann Althouse, Meadhouse, photos by Meade