#upper midwest

[minnesotacore]

Shoutout to Milwaukee, one my favorite cities, that’s definitely within this state.

[shutterandsentence]

"This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it!"

-Psalm 118:24

Photo: Arkdale, Wisconsin

[acewardcullen]

Checking the temperature and getting hit with another winter storm watch notification that stretches over multiple days is just another normal thing now I guess

[neondreamsicle]

also, if you live in the area, plan to not travel tomorrow! it's gonna rain overnight, too, so conditions will be extra slippery. chain them tires, billy-bob!

that last bit of more information is strictly for the older crowd lamenting about halloween blizzards for time immemorial, and it makes me laugh. give the geezers what they want!

[guysmileysstuff]

[rebirthofartemis]

Crying over a Redpop Faygo, absolutely homesick

[marxalittle]

Sorry that I enjoy Enough Sun That My Brain Works and Warm Extremities and Not Wearing Five Layers Even Inside and The Air Doesn't Hurt to Breathe and Walking Without Fear of Secret Ice and Not Shoveling Snow, but some of us were born to burn. You can enjoy your interminable darkness and treacherous streets and piles of snow growing filthier over the months they sit there and things freezing shut and wearing two pairs of socks and your nose freezing when you breathe in, I'm sure that's exhilarating for you, but I actually do like sweating into linen clothes. And I like it way more than I like never seeing daylight and never being properly warm-- yeah, guess what, even in wool socks and gloves and stuff, my fingers and toes are always cold! thanks for asking, I have poor thermoregulation!-- and basically suffering for half the fucking year. By March even people who like winter here are like "who do we have to kill to make this stop."

[minnesotacore]

[shutterandsentence]

"The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love."

--Zephaniah 3:17

Photo: Door County, Wisconsin

[historyhailey]

Living on Lake Superior has warped my brain. Tell me why I think this hat is a look, and that I could and should wear it in a fashion way

[acewardcullen]

The ice pieces in the winter make really cool noises with the waves :) from crazy crunching sounds to the small pieces sounding like wind chimes.

Lake Michigan sort of has its own Bermuda triangle situation. A few boats have strangely disappeared in there.

One of my favorite things is taking someone to the Great Lakes for the first time - or describing how you can fly over them and see only hundreds of miles of glittering blue water and no coasts at all; how they have their own Coast Guard (the only lakes to do so); that the Earth's rotation steers their currents; that they're studied using ocean models; that they have wrecked more than 6000 ships - and watch them realize that the word "lake" is misleading and that they had no idea of the size and majesty of them at all.

[acewardcullen]

Oh to be anywhere that doesn't have blizzard warnings on April 1st

[chainmailcurse]

somewhere between chicago and the upper peninsula

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Solar storm as seen over Crex Meadows, Wisconsin

[mapstories]

Unusual medium for mapmaking.

[also-yelling-into-the-void]

Alien posing as a human:

Alien: Hello, my name is human, I came down from the stars. Human: Oh ja? [friendship ensues]

Human posing as an alien:

Human: [Slightly mispronounces a word] Alien: IMPOSTORE!!