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Love XC skiing with Wausau Nordic Ski Club, road biking with Wausau Wheelers, Marathon County Historical Society, geology, and reading avidly. No DMs.
The Marathon County Historical Society’s new building now under construction-the John and Carolyn Sonnentag Archive Center-will allow us to continue to collect, preserve, and display the history of Marathon County for decades to come.
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#Wausau
#Wisconsin
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January 9, 2026 at 12:16 AM
The Marathon County Historical Society’s new building now under construction-the John and Carolyn Sonnentag Archive Center-will allow us to continue to collect, preserve, and display the history of Marathon County for decades to come.
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#Wausau
#Wisconsin
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New snow and fresh XC skate deck and classic tracks made for a fun ski at Minocqua Winter Park.
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January 8, 2026 at 1:47 AM
New snow and fresh XC skate deck and classic tracks made for a fun ski at Minocqua Winter Park.
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#NordicSki
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#Wisconsin
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January 5, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Here’s what you don’t see: the San Gabriel Mountains thanks to the atmospheric river flowing inland from the Pacific Ocean.
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#outdoors
#clouds
#weather
#mountains
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January 5, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Here’s what you don’t see: the San Gabriel Mountains thanks to the atmospheric river flowing inland from the Pacific Ocean.
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#clouds
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#mountains
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“Look here,” she said nonchalantly to herself, “I can turn my head all the way to the right and look over my left side. Bet you can’t do that.”
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#Wausau
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December 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“Look here,” she said nonchalantly to herself, “I can turn my head all the way to the right and look over my left side. Bet you can’t do that.”
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#wildlife
#Wisconsin
#MarathonCounty
#Wausau
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She has survived Wisconsin’s gun season, too. Question: Will we see another fawn in about 7 months?
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December 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
She has survived Wisconsin’s gun season, too. Question: Will we see another fawn in about 7 months?
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#Wausau
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Guess who has scathed Wisconsin’s gun deer season?
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December 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Guess who has scathed Wisconsin’s gun deer season?
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#Wisconsin
#MarathonCounty
#Wausau
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#MarathonCounty
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Firm, level, and icy tracks made for fast classic XC skiing at Nine Mile Forest on December 17. Members of the Wausau Nordic Ski Club had a fun outing. I’m hoping the snow keeps on falling.
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December 20, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Firm, level, and icy tracks made for fast classic XC skiing at Nine Mile Forest on December 17. Members of the Wausau Nordic Ski Club had a fun outing. I’m hoping the snow keeps on falling.
#CrossCountrySkiing
#NordicSkiing
#Outdoors
#Nature
#Wausau
#MarathonCounty
#Wisconsin
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#NordicSkiing
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#Nature
#Wausau
#MarathonCounty
#Wisconsin
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
First cross country ski outing of the season. WinMan, located in Winchester, Vilas County, has a boatload of fresh snow and well-groomed trails.
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#Wisconsin
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December 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
First cross country ski outing of the season. WinMan, located in Winchester, Vilas County, has a boatload of fresh snow and well-groomed trails.
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#nordicski
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#nature
#Wisconsin
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Northern lights over Wausau. The still photo captures the light much better than the video in my last post.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Northern lights over Wausau. The still photo captures the light much better than the video in my last post.
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This video isn’t the best depiction of the northern lights, but turn the volume up all the way and listen to the coyotes yipping (plus a siren) during the first part. Don’t know what made them yip, but I like to think it was the northern lights.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This video isn’t the best depiction of the northern lights, but turn the volume up all the way and listen to the coyotes yipping (plus a siren) during the first part. Don’t know what made them yip, but I like to think it was the northern lights.
#nature
#NorthernLights
#Wisconsin
#outdoors
#nature
#NorthernLights
#Wisconsin
#outdoors
Full moonrise over Wausau, Wisconsin. My sister-in-law, a nurse in Georgia, says, and I quote, “the crazies will be out tonight!”
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Full moonrise over Wausau, Wisconsin. My sister-in-law, a nurse in Georgia, says, and I quote, “the crazies will be out tonight!”
November 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Our burning bush and sugar maple coming in to fall glory.
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#gardening
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
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October 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Our burning bush and sugar maple coming in to fall glory.
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#flowers
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#Wisconsin
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#Wisconsin
Dawn Staley’s “Uncommon Favor” is an inspiring, informative, and entertaining read. Go Gamecocks!
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#SouthCarolinaGamecocks
#WNBA
October 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Dawn Staley’s “Uncommon Favor” is an inspiring, informative, and entertaining read. Go Gamecocks!
#SouthCarolinaGamecocks
#WNBA
#SouthCarolinaGamecocks
#WNBA
September 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
With hundreds of pounds of plants in our gardens for the taking, the deer, those cervine gluttons, just have to eat most of the flowers on our one hardy mum plant. I suppose the stems are too rough for their delicate digestive tracts. Really annoying!
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September 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
With hundreds of pounds of plants in our gardens for the taking, the deer, those cervine gluttons, just have to eat most of the flowers on our one hardy mum plant. I suppose the stems are too rough for their delicate digestive tracts. Really annoying!
#nature
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
#gardening
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While most of our plants are fading, a rough blazing star, plenty of big leaf aster, and some New England aster have elbowed their way to the sunlight.
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#gardening
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#Wisconsin
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September 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
While most of our plants are fading, a rough blazing star, plenty of big leaf aster, and some New England aster have elbowed their way to the sunlight.
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#flowers
#gardening
#bloomscrolling
#Wisconsin
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My favorite coffee shop on planet Earth has won the Best Coffeeshop/Cafe award by City Pages in the greater Wausau area. The coffee, food, owners, staff, customers, and music—the whole vibe—are the best. Congratulations to Tucknee Coffee Company!
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September 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My favorite coffee shop on planet Earth has won the Best Coffeeshop/Cafe award by City Pages in the greater Wausau area. The coffee, food, owners, staff, customers, and music—the whole vibe—are the best. Congratulations to Tucknee Coffee Company!
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#MarathonCounty
#Wisconsin
#coffeeshops
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#MarathonCounty
#Wisconsin
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A late season Monarch caterpillar among first season Butterfly Weed.
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September 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
A late season Monarch caterpillar among first season Butterfly Weed.
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Two billion years ago there was no “Wisconsin.” Sediments eroded off the southern margin of the Superior craton of the Canadian Shield into an ocean where they settled and lithified. But now they lie just north of Wausau.
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#earthscience
#nature
#rocks
#fossils
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#Wisconsin
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September 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Two billion years ago there was no “Wisconsin.” Sediments eroded off the southern margin of the Superior craton of the Canadian Shield into an ocean where they settled and lithified. But now they lie just north of Wausau.
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#earthscience
#nature
#rocks
#fossils
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
#outdoors
#geology
#earthscience
#nature
#rocks
#fossils
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
#outdoors
I recently posted this close up image (left), but I neglected to post the normal distance image (right) for scale. Fossil trackway of Climactichnites in 510 million year old sandstone from Marathon County, now on the Riverwalk in Wausau.
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#nature
#Wisconsin
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September 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I recently posted this close up image (left), but I neglected to post the normal distance image (right) for scale. Fossil trackway of Climactichnites in 510 million year old sandstone from Marathon County, now on the Riverwalk in Wausau.
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#rocks
#geology
#nature
#Wisconsin
#earthscience
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This guy is a big part of the reason why we have so many deer that eat our hostas, asters, phlox, and just about every other plant.
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#wildlife
#gardening
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
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#gardening
#flowers
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#Wausau
#Wisconsin
September 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This guy is a big part of the reason why we have so many deer that eat our hostas, asters, phlox, and just about every other plant.
#nature
#wildlife
#gardening
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
#nature
#wildlife
#gardening
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
#Wausau
#Wisconsin
The underdogs in our garden. While the blue lobelia proliferates, the cardinal flower seems to get overrun by everything. And New England Aster is the perennial first choice of the deer; don’t know how this spindly stalk escaped the deer.
#nature
#gardening
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
#Wisconsin
#nature
#gardening
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
#Wisconsin
September 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The underdogs in our garden. While the blue lobelia proliferates, the cardinal flower seems to get overrun by everything. And New England Aster is the perennial first choice of the deer; don’t know how this spindly stalk escaped the deer.
#nature
#gardening
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
#Wisconsin
#nature
#gardening
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
#Wisconsin