Subzero weather, football season ends, MLK’s renaming, Trump pandemonium, Patrick Bringley on BBC Outlook, Bob Geldof on RTÉ Radio, and jackbooted thugs.
Another Week: Number 161
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Here is a list of content tagged “winter” on MarkCz.com.
Another Week: Number 155
The nasty winter weather continues, ‘I’ll Find You’ (2019), ‘Lives Less Ordinary’: Hayley Williams’ grandpa Rusty, kindness activist Samuel Weidenhofer, ‘Jay Kelly’ (2025).
Another Week: Number 154
Winter’s here. The USA has carried out 22 airstrikes off South America. Shovelwax works pretty well. Also: ‘Death By Lightning,’ and Johnny Carson.
Another Week: Number 113
A polar vortex cold snap, a house explosion in my neighborhood, and the law of attraction per ‘The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrne.
Another Week: Number 112
An impaired driver with 335 million passengers, another Super Bowl, catching up on ‘WTF with Marc Maron,’ and ‘Harriet’ (2019).
Another Week: Number 108
Construction in the cold, split guitar pinky, coyote at Aldi, and one year without Amy. Also: the Australian Open and ‘Unstoppable’ (2024).
Another Week: Number 107
Snow shoveling and walking opens up the airways and alleviates pain. Also: the Los Angeles wildfires and ‘Good News’ (1947).
Another Week: Number 103
It’s too cold and dark for gardening and there are strange rumblings. Plus, graphic designer Allan Peters: ‘Do Not Let Fear Be Your Master,’ and ‘Sugarcane’(2024).
Gast & Sons power equipment, Caledonia, Wisconsin
Caledonia, Wisconsin — Gast & Sons power equipment shop at 111 6 Mile Rd., with the setting sun reflecting off a window. Gast & Sons offers sales and service of Gravely and Simplicity tractors and mowers, plus snowblowers,...
Joseph and Mary in melting snow, Racine, Wisconsin
Racine, Wisconsin — The heads and shoulders of Joseph and Mary emerge as snow melts around a plastic outdoor nativity set in front of a house on Pierce Boulevard on the eve of Valentine's Day — two weeks after the "Blizzard...
Blizzard of 2011 vs. snowblower, Racine, Wisconsin
Racine, Wisconsin — Using a snow thrower to cut paths to nearby houses, our neighbor Tim begins to plow through the record snowfall that piled up during the Blizzard of 2011, just one snowstorm in our cold and snowy winter....
Chicago Blizzard of 1967: Snow storm coverage, video
While waiting for Racine to be buried by the Blizzard of 2011, many of us here in southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois are recalling the great Chicago Blizzard of 1967. That storm — on January 26, 1967 — dumped 23 inches of snow on northeast Illinois and...
The Krampus and St. Nicholas in Austria (December 5)
The excitement is palpable in the video above as children await the arrival of visitors in Dienten am Hochkönig, a little mountain village in Austria. Many Americans probably recognize St. Nicholas, whose feast day is December 6. A legendary bringer of gifts on the...
Snow in Wisconsin: December 19, 2008
This was the view outside my window at about 9:20 this morning. I think I'm going to send it to Charles Osgood and ask him to use it as the last minute of this week's CBS Sunday Morning. The snow has since stopped, so now we're going...
Snow! Bring back Indian summer
Our local forecast: This afternoon: Flurries and areas of blowing snow before 3pm, then areas of blowing snow after 3pm. Tonight: Wind chill values between -5 and 5. Sunday night: New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. Monday night: New snow accumulation of...
Fleece jacket by Patagonia is lightweight, warm in winter
Every once in a while, you buy a product that turns out to be worth every penny you paid and then some. I was out walking for an hour or so today ahead of tonight's ominous wind chill advisory when it occurred to me that I really love my Patagonia R3 fleece jacket....
Kenosha apartment, 5th Avenue
Kenosha, Wisconsin — The ramshackle upper flat on Kenosha's small boat harbor where we spent 17 quick years. $variable({"type":"content","value":{"name":"post_tags","settings":{"before":"Filed...
Pike River, Petrifying Springs snowstorm
Kenosha County, Wisconsin — The Pike River winds through Petrifying Springs Park during a February snowstorm. $variable({"type":"content","value":{"name":"post_tags","settings":{"before":"Filed...
Snow-covered Amy
Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Amy, getting covered with snow during a snowstorm at Petrifying Springs. $variable({"type":"content","value":{"name":"post_tags","settings":{"before":"Filed...
Petrifying Springs bridge over Pike River
Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Snow-covered bridge over the Pike River at Petrifying Springs. $variable({"type":"content","value":{"name":"post_tags","settings":{"before":"Filed...
Sledding in a snowstorm
Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Sledders out on Petrifying Springs Golf Course during a snowstorm. $variable({"type":"content","value":{"name":"post_tags","settings":{"before":"Filed...
Petrifying Springs: Snow-covered conifers
Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Snow-covered trees in mid-February at Petrifying Springs Park. $variable({"type":"content","value":{"name":"post_tags","settings":{"before":"Filed...
Snow-laced trees at Petrifying Springs
Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Snow highlights the branches and twigs of a tree at Petrifying Springs Park. $variable({"type":"content","value":{"name":"post_tags","settings":{"before":"Filed...
Sledding at Petrifying Springs (Rosebud!)
Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Sledding on Hole 17 of Petrifying Springs Golf Course. American film director, writer, actor, and producer Orson Welles, who directed Citizen Kane (1941), was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1915,...
Petrifying Springs sledding area
Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Sledding area on holes 8 and 17 of Petrifying Springs Golf Course. $variable({"type":"content","value":{"name":"post_tags","settings":{"before":"Filed...