On Sunday, a beautiful autumn day, we explored Lakeshore State Park, built on landfill to the east of the Sumerfest grounds and just south of the art museum. The kids got to ride their trykes, climb some rocks, and watch a family of four trying to lure the spawning fish in the inlet. Just before we arrived at the fishing area, a nine or ten year old girl caught a sizeable brown trout -- about the length of my arm. Across the inlet, trout and salmon were leaping up to the surface of the water like popcorn in the pan, which pleased our guys to no end.
Staring out on Lake Michigan and the few sailboats left braving October wind.
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay brave the peaks of Everest, with downtown Milwaukee in the distance.
“Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. . . But as the climb continues, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control.” -- John Krakauer
"Because it is there."
Along the Calatrava Motorway.
Caleb enjoyed watching the fishermen and ladies cast their lines, and took their floating green lures to be "FISH!"
Sam found some sea glass. Or part of a Pabst bottle. Either way: good find!
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