Photos from Our Cruise on Saturday

 

My computer Boethius is starting to scare me a little. Last night I discovered yet more slideshows he had made, and they had appropriate names like "At the Beach" and "On the Trail." There was one of a bunch of pictures when the Rosary Ladies invaded a Men's Steak Night Out, and Boethius titled that one "Around the Table." At least he didn't know to call the tie-dye one "Wearing Tie-Dye," or I'd really be freaking out.

Tonight Travalon and I took a hike at Lodi Marsh. That was really scenic, with all sorts of hills around us, and then we went up on a ridge and the marsh was below us. We both took pictures, so I will post those at some point, but tonight I am posting the long-promised photos from our cruise on Saturday. If you like autumn foliage and/or sailboats, then you will really enjoy these photos.

This is the Governor's Mansion. I have heard that the current governor actually does live there, and he and his wife go out on water bikes all the time. The rumor is that the last governor didn't live in Madison because he hated it here so much.

This is the Tenney Park locks that you can go through to get from Mendota (the lake we were on) to Monona. I have no idea if the lighthouse works - I have never seen it lit up.

Notice the scaffolding on the Capitol dome. They are doing some sort of work on it.

Here is our little boat, the Megan Jaye. (Named after John Lennon's yacht.)

Some of the shots above were of Governor's Island, and after the cruise we went there for a hike. These are some photos from that.

There are amazing views of downtown from Governor's Island.

These are views of Maple Bluff from Governor's Island, with the sunset bringing out the fall colors.

And here is the sunset itself! Still from Governor's Island.

Then we went to Warner Beach, and Travalon took some more photos of the sunset afterglow.

By the way, Governor's Island is not a real island because there is an isthmus out to it. I think it may have started life as an island, or maybe it is naturally a peninsula with a skinny part leading to a round part, but that seems less likely. Anyway, you can drive out onto it, but you have to park on the isthmus part and hike on the round part that seems like the real island.

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Slide Shows by Boethius

 

So now I know why my computer Boethius is running out of memory - he's been making slide shows for me! I find this cute and endearing even though I know he's a computer and is just doing whatever some programmer told him to do. Last night as I was about to log off after Night Prayer, he flashed a message across the screen: "I made you a slide show of the Best of 2020." Intrigued, I watched it... and fell down the rabbit hole of staying up way too late watching all of them. Most of them seemed logical, like one of our road trip down to Cuba and the Bahamas, or another of a gorgeous spring day when Tiffy and I hung out at Olbrich Gardens and I took a million pictures, but there was one he made that was just photos of Travalon and me doing random things while wearing these tie-dye shirts I made. Apparently artificial intelligence really digs homemade tie-dye. Then I discovered Boethius had made slide shows of people. He had made one of Luxuli, one of Jilly Moose, and one of OK Cap, but not Anna Banana II (who was in a lot of the same photos) or Tiffy (who is kind of camera-shy but was in some shots with me). He knew Jilly Moose's name, but not the others' names. He made one of Rich, and one of me, and one of Travalon, but he only knew Travalon's name. Boethius is smart enough to figure out that Travalon and I go together, and so he also made a slide show called "Together" of Travalon and me, but when I opened it, it said: "Travalon + One Other." I laughed so hard I almost choked. Come on, Boethius! I'm your owner! How can you know my husband's name but not mine? Artificial intelligence: it's hilarious... until we're bowing down before our robot overlords.

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