This weekend was Eagle Days in Prairie du Sac and Sauk City, WI and I needed an excuse to use my new zoom lens so we headed out there. It was snowing so wasn’t the ideal conditions for active eagle watching but we still got to see some eagles quite close up.
Below are pictures from the hydraulic dam just north of Prairie du Sac. There was a big sign asking people to stay in their cars so they don’t scare the eagles and most listened. That didn’t stop one gal though from standing on the seat and poking her head through the sun roof.
None of the photos on today’s post were cropped (unlike many of the photos in my blog posts about our trip to the Mississippi). I know the last one is blurry. I definitely need some practice manually focusing on a moving object.
We stopped on a bridge over the Wisconsin for this picture:
We also stopped at Wollersheim Winery and took their tour (and of course sampled some wine). Here are a few pictures:
The second photo shows their chardonnay in a barrel.
The third is a barrel of their brandy. In the last few years, laws have changed such that wineries can now also distill and so Wollersheim took advantage of this by making it’s own brandy. Last year the first batch was released and sold out in ten days. This year the second batch will be released in May. They have doubled the quantity they are making this time. They have recently built a distillery on the property and hope to increase production of their brandy even more. A gentleman on the tour had nothing but incredible things to say about it.
The last picture is of the cave. This cave was just recently renovated. It was built in the 1840’s by the first guy to have a winery on the property. The cave was used again in the later 1800s by a family while they built their house.
For lunch we stopped at the Blue Spoon Café in Prairie du Sac. The food was pretty good. But what was most interesting was the ceiling fans in their upstairs dining room. Here are a few pictures (I apologize for the quality of the last one, I should have switched lenses).
And finally, we saw an interesting goose. From my brief research online, it appears to be a domestic greylag goose (which were a domesticated breed in Europe and Asia).
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