#cold day

It is very cloudy day here but I captured a little sunrise color today. My brother is still here so I don’t know what is on the agenda today. He hasn’t been around here for a bunch of years since moving up north so maybe we’ll cruise around and look at stuff. 😃

We might be bumming around but we won’t be walking around, it’s only 16F degrees (-8C) outside 🥶

It was too far to snap a picture, but I thought to myself: if there are primroses here, there might be crocuses in the forest.

I waited until afternoon, hoping weather would pick up, and then I went to the forest to forage for chickweed. And I found them. The first crocuses:

It's so cold and cloudy they wouldn't open but they're here! I found 8 in total in the forest. Spring is coming!

February 2 degrees cold - Jørgen Sørensen , 1887.

Norwegian , 1861-1894

Brrrrrrr! Too Cold to Go to Work Today.

It is currently -4F, with potential -30 windchills here in Milwaukee today. So, Special Collections, the UWM Libraries, and 95% of UWM Campus will be closed today, January 21, 2025, because of extreme temperature conditions. We're just hunkering down in our cozy little cottages for the day, and hopefully we'll see y'all tomorrow.

These color wood engravings are by Kentucky wood engraver Joanne Price as illustrations for Sena Jeter Naslund’s winter story, When Children Ruled the World: A Christmas Story, handprinted and published in Monterey, Kentucky by Larkspur Press in an edition of 42 copies in 2021.

View more of our posts on the work of Joanne Price and her Starpointe Studio.