Southern Wisconsin Airfest video
Posted by GLEN LOYD on May 25, 2012 - 10:44 p.m.
I love it when the air show jets rocket down the Rock River.
I shot this video at Friday afternoon practice. Music: Kevin MacLeod
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"She's funner than I thought Lunch Buddies would be!"
Posted by GLEN LOYD on May 18, 2012 - 2:52 p.m.
Want to have fun with a child? You might want to try the Lunch Buddies program run by Big Brothers Big Sisters. A newspaper editor tells about her lunch hour for the past year.
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Mother rabbit battles hungry crows on banks of Rock River
Posted by GLEN LOYD on May 11, 2012 - 8:38 a.m.
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Swan babies near Janesville
Posted by GLEN LOYD on May 4, 2012 - 2:50 p.m.
Swan babies near Janesville
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Pelicans flying over Rock County now!
Posted by GLEN LOYD on May 2, 2012 - 10:51 p.m.
At least 20 pelicans fly in almost perfect V formation over Rock Baseball Field between Afton and Janesville just west of the Rock River.
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Look out! Pugnacious swan near Rock River
Posted by GLEN LOYD on April 27, 2012 - 5:18 p.m.
Video of a pugnacious swan near Rock River
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Evansville girl wants to have fun--forever!
Posted by GLEN LOYD on April 20, 2012 - 5:27 p.m.
12-year old Callie wants to be with her Big Sister--Mary Ann Zelmanski--forever.
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Mark Twain's Blue Jays From "A Tramp Abroad"
Posted by GLEN LOYD on April 13, 2012 - 4:53 p.m.
To illustrate my dependence on Mark Twain, I started off my own memoir with his words.
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Watching winter turn into spring
Posted by GLEN LOYD on April 6, 2012 - 10:42 p.m.
Big Brother Again
Posted by GLEN LOYD on March 30, 2012 - 3:29 p.m.
It's the second time around for Rick Schoemer of Cambridge, WI. as a Big Brother. This time his Little Brother is Deven. Rick is a retired school teacher who never ...
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Janesville kids to see Cleopatra. See her yourself here
Posted by GLEN LOYD on March 23, 2012 - 9:12 p.m.
Folks in the Midwest--including students from Van Buren School in Janesville--are flocking to the Milwaukee Public Museum to see “Cleopatra: The search for the last queen of Egypt.” Milwaukee is ...
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Pelicans along the Rock River
Posted by GLEN LOYD on March 16, 2012 - 7:06 p.m.
Email from Tom Eighmy, a new friend of mine who lives on he Rock River between Rockford and Byron: "We saw the Pelicans ... every day for a week or ...
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Rock River native making National Geographic movies
Posted by GLEN LOYD on March 9, 2012 - 9:50 a.m.
Since the French brought the written word to the Midwest in the 1600s, we have an impressive list of world explorers and famous leaders who have graced the Rock River--starting ...
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Destination Mars
Posted by GLEN LOYD on March 2, 2012 - 6:48 p.m.
We should be getting some interesting video of Mars this summer. According to Wikipedia, filmmaker and inventor of 3D camera technology, James Cameron participated in early design work on the ...
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Lightning strikes, the Lovejoy Comet and the Milky Way
Posted by GLEN LOYD on February 24, 2012 - 10:34 a.m.
In addition to a myriad of lightning strikes, the Lovejoy Comet and the Milky Way, you will also see the Russian Soyuz spacecraft providing transportation to the Space Station.
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Janesville helps light up the night for the International Space Station
Posted by GLEN LOYD on February 17, 2012 - 5:37 p.m.
…while Mother Nature fires up her exquisite aurora borealis.
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Rock River air show
Posted by GLEN LOYD on February 11, 2012 - 12:29 p.m.
Why do starlings mass together in the winter? Protection in numbers, some say. They are on the lookout for predators such as hawks. (Note: A viewer tells me that the ...
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Eagle soars from Rock River frost
Posted by GLEN LOYD on February 3, 2012 - 9:45 p.m.
Eagle soars from Rock River frost
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I can't imagine my life without him.
Posted by GLEN LOYD on January 28, 2012 - 12:23 a.m.
I have been telling the Big Brothers Big Sisters story for more than 40 years. And I have met a lot of those volunteers. I never met one I didn't ...
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Sunset birds
Posted by GLEN LOYD on January 20, 2012 - 6:13 p.m.
Specks in the sky enliven a beautiful winter sunset in Janesville, WI.
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