At the "No Trespassing" Café...

... you can come right on in!

At the Graffiti Bridge Café...

(Enlarge.)

... you can write anything you want.

At the October Water Café...

... shimmer...



... ripple...

Early evening on the Wisconsin River.

Today. Near Spring Green.

After all of this politics...

... don't you feel you need a bath?

UPDATE: I'm back. Not from a bath. From a long bike ride. Over 20 miles. Glad to see the Badgers crushed Minnesota.

Sunset, moonrise.

Tonight, on Lake Wingra.

At the Cool Reflection Café...

... you may coolly reflect (or spout off passionately). It's another open thread. That's all.

At the Water Lily Café...

... it's all so clear now.

"Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous?"

That's a montage I happened upon while looking for something else. Make of it what you will, but there's some truly fabulous female (and male) beauty to be gawked at. Tallulah is the most beautiful, is she not? And there she was, in that least glamorous setting, the lifeboat, of Hitchcock's "Lifeboat," which is what I was Googling for, looking for that scene with William Bendix (as "Gus") drinking sea water, a propos of lemondog's comment in the "Irony pursues Barack Obama" post.

Sky and water.

On the Bad River in Copper Falls State Park.

At the Bad River Café...

... you can roil the waters.

See the tiny man in the scenery?

(Larger).

It's Brownstone Falls. But what's that? Let's take a closer look:



He's out beyond the railing, with his eyes on the screen of the digital camera he's waving about with delight.

Below him:

Walking the bluffs.

Yesterday, we took the hiking path that snakes along the top of the bluffs where we'd kayaked the day before.



It was lovely...



... scary...


(Enlarge and see the expression on the guy's face.)

... and we watched our step...

Afternoon and evening light on the Apostle Islands.

At the Bubbler Café...

... you can put things in your own words.

At the Cool Water Café...

... dive in:

Visions of seemingly impossible things.

Did you know you can watch the sunset over Lake Michigan from Wisconsin?



And what is this? The camera has somehow taken a mysterious photograph:

At the Water Tree Nightclub...

... let the conversation flow.

"Cool. Next, a shower head that pulses out the morning's headlines for you during your daily ablutions."

"I am less worried about getting headlines in my shower than the subtle dermal-pressure loyalty conditioning. The aromatherapy mind control in my shampoo is bad enough...."

The Red Bud pond.