So, I am going to recap some of our trip to Wisconsin.
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| The Badgers, Wisconsin's beloved state weasel, had a big enclosure. |
First, we visited the Madison Zoo, a great FREE zoo. I loved it, but I loved the idea more. Because it was free, there were a lot of families there with kids under kindergarten age range. There were moms together with smaller kids, grandparents, and some people, like Ed and me, just visiting the zoo.
The screams of kids were pretty far away. They have a playground on the site, but far away from the animals, behind the food. So, the high energy of children had a place to burn it off. There was going to be some serious sleeping tonight!
Then we went for a walk at the University's botanical gardens. It was nice, but I was blown away by the prairie there. It was not what I was taught (either by school or movies, I don't know which).
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| Wind Cave Nat. Monument Prairie - from the US Depart. of Interior |
from movies
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| Self-explanatory |
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| From Disney's The Vanishing Prairie |
Well, that is not the prairie that Wisconsin is preserving. This is their picture of the prairie at the end of the Summer.
Somebody owes me an explanation PDQ.
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