This week my husband and I took what was supposed to be a 3 1/2 day trip to Milwaukee, but we cut it by one day due to unusually cold weather! Even so, we braved a bitterly cold wind on Thursday to walk around downtown Milwaukee to visit the Riverwalk (nearly deserted – best to return in summer!) and some beautiful old churches. We were standing at a corner waiting to cross the street when I spotted these brave flowers that remained pretty in spite of the cold and being buffeted by 30 mile per hour winds! I wondered how much longer they would last. So I captured them on my cell phone and here they are: