A Picture A Day(ish): October 14

Milwaukee, as it happened. (Taken in the Milwaukee airport.)

A Picture A Day(ish): October 15

At Camp Randall Stadium in Madison.

( A few more Madison pictures )

A Picture A Day(ish): October 16

The daytime photo of the day...

...and the nighttime one.

Both taken at Wehr Nature Center in Franklin; Friday was the Halloween Haunt, a 45-minute walk through a forest full of jack-o-lanterns.

( A few more photos from the pumpkin walk )

A Picture A Day(ish): October 17

Ol' Pink Nose is back.

Runner-up: flowers still hanging on in my mom's garden.

A Picture A Day(ish): October 18

Glow Golf at Southridge Mall. My mom and I both got a hole in one on this hole, and it wasn't even a gimme.

Glow Golf was truly bizarre. (Mom: "What's the word for this?" Me: "Tacky?" Mom: "Surreal.") It was occupying part of a vacant Linens 'n Things anchor store at the mall (which had been Marshall Field's and Prange's and Gimbels before that -- how the mighty have fallen). The whole place was lit with nothing but overhead blacklights. There were two 18-hole courses -- the holes were necessarily rather small, but still, it was a good two hours of mini golf. We went on Monday afternoon, and the place was deserted except for us and a grandparents-and-granddaughter team; we started on the opposite end from them, and they left long before we were done. So we were basically alone in this weird, cavernous, glowing space. And they were playing the local Christian rock station. Like I said, surreal.

( More glow golf pictures! )