Ali Ballweg

I’m from Sauk Prairie.  It cannot be found on a map, and it’s not because it’s too small.  It’s because it’s actually two different towns, Sauk City and Prairie Du Sac.  Way back when, Sauk was founded by the Germans and Prairie by the French, therefore causing them pretty much hate each other.  However over the decades the towns grew together and nowadays there the only way to tell the difference is in the winter when one side of Oak Street (the dividing street) is plowed and the other isn’t.  Yup, although Sauk Prairie has one school district, one hospital, and one airport; it has two complete different village halls, police and fire departments, libraries, and post offices.  It’s rediculous and through a local photography show called ‘Fences’ (all entries are supposed to depict some sort of boundry), I’m going to try to share my opinion with people.  So here’s the picture that I decided to enter.

Don’t forget to notice the irony of the SP Hospital sign in the back

Every year my high school gymnastics team has a sleepover at the gym. There’s really only one way to describe it… complete chaos. The coaches attempts to get the girls to stop screaming and doing flips and ‘just go to bed already’ are fully ignored until around 3 or 4 am when the all sugar wears off. I used to be a part of this when I was on the team and missed it so much that I stopped by for a bit this year. I didn’t take many pictures because of all the fun I was having (and the muscles I was pulling, man I’m getting old), but here are a few.