I remembered last spring taking a picture of someone’s backyard in a downtown metro area and holding onto that image on my camera phone as inspiration for me this year. It is truly inspiring to see how some can enrich their world through a little hard work and creativity (well, maybe a lot of hard work). What do you think? Does this look like your backyard?
I’ve often been told one should be a tourist in their own city before venturing out into the world and I never really followed that advice. Things always looked so much better outside of the peripheral view. Even a trip two hours away seemed more fun than staying home and doing something locally. I’ve been to exotic lands, pretended to like new foods and shared adventures with family and friends; and yet, when the economy took a downturn, I turned to things on my own turf for escape and learned that there really was an upside to staying local.
This blog is about the slices of life attractions we only see as a blur as we travel to and from our work/social lives. This photo, for example, was taken on a familiarization trip I took with Visit Milwaukee this Spring. We were not told where we were going until we got on the bus and that day we visited eight or nine different spots in the Milwaukee area seeing things I did not even know existed.
Can you identify this photo? It is in the Milwaukee metro area that shares its roots and tradition with many other buildings, people and animals. In fact, tradition is what makes this attraction so compelling, a visitor can lose themselves in the shaded gray area of time.
