For the last several days, anxious fishermen have been trying their luck. The cold temps this winter have offered safer conditions this early; minus digits for the past several nights; -3 this AM; 14.5 as I type. This pic shot from here at Birr’s Eye View.
Web cam is a priority on the agenda. I’m working on the box that will protect it from the elements, especially the present cold and snow. Roger
General Posts | Roger Birr December 17, 2009 | 
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This from Joe Koshnik (“Injun Joe”), friend and brother Manitowoc Firefighter I worked with prior to both our retirements. Roger
Injun writes:
“Hi All;
Happy Holidays & a Great New Year. This musky was caught and released on the bay of Green Bay..It was a 48″. my biggest this year.
Hope you are all fine and doing well. Keep in touch, you are always on our minds, joe/mic.”
(Click on photo to enlarge; click on enlargement to make bigger.)
General Posts | Roger Birr December 15, 2009 |
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I shot this shot yesterday; the birds are returning in droves, along with other critters including squirrels, to the winter feeders Shirley just put up. 27 today, back to 12 tomorrow and low-teens for the rest of the week! With all the snow and cold, the feeders are a welcome sight; for the birds and for the Birrs! Roger
This from Kelly Lake’s Pat Patterson:
News Item: Hundreds gathered to protest global warming.
General Posts | Roger Birr December 14, 2009 |
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The following text and photo from Kelly Lake’s Vicki Reed. Vicki and her husband, William (Buz), have a cottage near us in the cove. She logs on often, and intends to share their love of Kelly Lake; applying her artistic photography prowess. I hope she shares some of her ventures into journalism and photography with you, as she has with us. Vicki and Buz have an impressionable and enviable journalistic background ! Welcome aboard, Vicki and Buz, to kellylake.net! Roger
Vicki writes:
“My husband, Buz and I have owned our cottage on Kelly Lake for 15 years. We both grew up in a small town in Maine that was located on a lake. Our early memories are filled with wonderful experiences centered around that spring fed lake in the heart of the Pine Tree State. When we moved to Cedarburg, Wisconsin in 1982 via Indiana and Illinois we were expecting our first child. We hoped to buy a cottage “Up North” to make memories with our children. It was not until after we purchased our place on Kelly Lake that we learned that it was located on the 49th parallel- the same exact parallel as our hometown in Maine!
I am a former daily news photographer who now specializes in limited edition B&W and hand colored prints. As photography moves toward more technology I seem to go in the opposite direction out of protest! Though I own and enjoy digital cameras, my equipment of choice includes vintage cameras as well as plastic toy cameras and simple pinholes. I develop and print the film in my wet darkroom. Over the years I have enjoyed discovering Oconto County and nearby areas through the lens of my camera and am happy to share some of the images through this website. In recent years I have also enjoyed photographing area lakes in my kayak.
Thanks, Roger for maintaining this site and giving the greater public a glimpse of our lovely part of the Midwest.”
~Vicki Reed
www.vickireed.com
Fence Posts was taken in Maple Valley with my Holga camera, a Chinese plastic toy camera that is subject to light leaks, soft focus and vignetting the edges of the image. I am never quite sure what I will capture with the thing and that is what gives it its charm!
Articles, General Posts | Roger Birr December 13, 2009 |
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