Bosca Dubh

park

Gold Medal Park, Minneapolis

Now see these:

• the travelling trees from myphotosquare
• Winter Landscape from Tristan Campbell
• untitled from rebecca
• Hanging Bonnet, Sisters’ House from A Walk Through Durham Township

Gold

Gold Medal Park, Minneapolis

Now see these:

• Herbie Flyers from Andy Smith-Petersen
• Evening stroll from Aperture First
• Conversation from a view from the 6oh lens

river abstract

Peabody River, New Hampshire

ledge 2

Peabody River, New Hampshire

Now see these:

• December frost from absolutely nothing
• Sid’s diner from Electrolite
• vergangenheit from i had a dream i was your hero
• Wheels from Ephemeral Vision

ledge

Peabody River, New Hampshire

tumbled

Reid State Park, Georgetown, Maine

Today only: Free-e-day downloads of two short story collections, Pieces and Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny, here.

Now see these:

• Winter in Minneapolis from CarbonSilver
• pigeon square from photoful
• Adam and Pia from Sharon Bushman Photography
• Shades of Red from tengtan

Holly Trolley

Put down your shopping bags this Thanksgiving weekend and climb aboard the Holly Trolley, a special run of the Como-Harriet Streetcar feature Santa Claus, carolers, hot cider, and plenty of Christmas cheer!

The trolley runs from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday (no concession stand this day), Saturday, and Sunday, November 27 to 29 and Saturday and Sunday, December 5 and 6.

The Como-Harriet Streetcar Line, operated by the Minnesota Streetcar Museum, operates three historic Minnesota streetcars. The Holly Trolley, decorated in lovely garlands and wreaths and featuring Santa Claus, leaves from the Linden Hills Station, Queen Avenue South and West 42nd Street, on the west side of Lake Harriet. It’s a charming reminder of the days when Minneapolis and St. Paul had one of the most extensive streetcar systems in the country.

For complete details, including directions and fare information, please visit the Museum online.

Do note that the line runs as weather permits; the Museum has done a great job restoring the cars and tracks to their full glory, but they don’t have the resources to keep them clear of snow and ice the way the proud workers of the Twin City Rapid Transit Company did before 1954.

boulders

Peabody River

Now see these:

• View Toward Sand Beach from Andy Smith-Petersen
• Industrial from Aperture First
• The Indian Creek Experience from Aperture First
• stark from apparently nothing

river of clouds

Peabody River

Now see these:

• tranquility from dying light
• Missed, Fallen from The World in 35mm
• Shy … Walk Away from Reflex photos
• Coil from Monday Morning Photo Blog

scattered

Peabody River

Now see these:

• Guard of the Vatican Museums from Enrique Vidal
• Pyramids to Temples: Egypt to Cambodia from and sometimes i just sits
• Triple from d e s o l a t e | m e t r o p o l i s

burble

Peabody River

Now see these:

• nov 8 from myphotosquare
• Ancient Woodland from absolutely nothing
• Weather Report: 1920 from Shorpy

swirl

Peabody River

Now see these:

• Reading a book from Psampaz Photography
• #82 from lgbravo.com
• Eyes on the UN from friskyPics
• PCC in need of TLC 2 from Found in Focus
• bicicleta from dioptrias

flow

Peabody River

Now see these:

• Tower Underbelly from The World in 35mm
• Seafolly from neverhappen.com
• Sopot from FotoStamina
• Vent a Zumaia from BEGIRADA
• Vassoura II from Fotos PPF

current

Peabody River

Now see these:

• dead essentials from Your Waitress
• Petite pluie et hauts talons place des Abbesses from ParisCool
• Platja de Zumaia from BEGIRADA
• Back from holiday from ??????
• A Bad Reputation from Wolfman-K

shroud

Peabody River

Now see these:

• pause for beauty from hanna birke
• Roadside from Feldauge
• Life Belt from milou
• from the view of yokohama landmark tower from 1965 monochrone
• an ascetic from BOXMAN fotologue

veil

Peabody River, New Hampshire

Now see these:

• Parure from Elaine
• late night bus diversion in traffic on bloomsbury way from rion.nu
• Fluff from Anita’s photoblog
• 104 from Félix Ménard

boulders

Peabody River

Now see these:

• Swingers: 1924 from Shorpy
• City Shelter from MUTE
• Missing petal from the white silence
• Dressed for Work – Chapultepec, Mexico City from Ephemeral Visions
• Piquant …. from Didier DE ZAN’s Photoblog

tumult

Peabody River, near Dolly Copp, New Hampshire

Now see these:

• Crazy critters from danishsuburb.dk
• Déformation from Petits papiers
• Cloudwatcher from photoful

farther shore

Peabody River, near Dolly Copp, New Hampshire

Now see these:

• Penobscot Narrows Bridges from Andy Smith-Petersen
• Chestnut from Aperture First
• Samedi from nikon bri

stripe

Peabody River, near Dolly Copp, New Hampshire

Now see these:

• Onomatopoeia from graciform
• White Peacock at Two Dogs Farm from A Walk Through Durham Township
• Kaiser WIlhelm Memorial Church from Rossen’s Photo Gallery
• crescent moon from Human Nature

bank stones

Peabody River

Now see these:

• The Apprentice: 1917 from Shorpy
• Passage from Elaine
• Las Ramblas from Hmmm

flow

Peabody River, near Dolly Copp park, New Hampshire

Now see these:

• Lone tree at dawn, Malham #2 from Tristan Campbell
• the beginning of the end from dreams of light
• St-Quirin-Platz from Olli in Munich

spots

Peabody River, near Dolly Copp park, New Hampshire

Now see these:

• radcliffe camera @ night from apparently nothing
• late afternoon from myphotosquare
• Untitled from Craig Persel

clear water

Peabody River, near Dolly Copp park, New Hampshire

Now see these:

• device from bighappyfunhouse
• Driftwood (2009) from Andy Smith-Petersen
• I-Tent from Aperture First

shoes

Peabody River, near Dolly Copp park, New Hampshire

Now see these:

• paris 2009 from dying light
• out the bus window from puja parakh
• dia de los muertos from Eletrolite

Bridge Builders 9

Dolly Copp camp ground, New Hampshire

Now see these:

• La belle fille, 1900 from Shorpy
• In a certain clear day from Million-Year Picnic
• untitled from rebecca

bridge builders 8

Bridging the Peabody River, near Dolly Kopp Park, New Hampshire

bridge builders 7

Bridging the Peabody River, near Dolly Kopp Park, New Hampshire

bridge builders 6

Bridging the Peabody River, near Dolly Kopp Park, New Hampshire

bridge builders 5

Bridging the Peabody River, near Dolly Kopp Park, New Hampshire

bridge builders 4

Bridging the Peabody River, near Dolly Kopp Park, New Hampshire

bridge builders 3

Bridging the Peabody River, near Dolly Kopp Park, New Hampshire

bridge builders 2

Bridging the Peabody River, near Dolly Copp Park, New Hampshire

bridge builders

Bridging the Peabody River, near Dolly Copp Park, New Hampshire

Burnt Island Light 4

Burnt Island, Boothbay Harbor, Maine

Burnt Island Light 3

Burnt Island, Boothbay Harbor, Maine

island point

Burnt Island, Boothbay Harbor, Maine

mangled

lost lobster trap, Burnt Island, Boothbay Harbor, Maine

sea gaze

Burnt Island, Boothbay Harbor, Maine

Harbor Light

Boothbay Harbor, Maine

Island Stones

Burnt Island, near Boothbay, Maine.

Cast Up

Lobster trap lost at sea, Burnt Island, near Boothbay, Maine.

Summer Hat

Burnt Island, near Boothbay, Maine.

Burnt Island

Burnt Island, near Boothbay, Maine.

Burnt Island Light 2

Burnt Island, near Boothbay, Maine.

Burnt Island Light

Burnt Island, near Boothbay, Maine.

That nothing can stay and nothing can bind

The father sat, and told them tales
Of wrecks in the great September gales,
Of pirates coasting the Spanish Main,
And ships that never came back again,
The chance and change of a sailor’s life,
Want and plenty, rest and strife,
His roving fancy, like the wind,
That nothing can stay and nothing can bind,
And the magic charm of foreign lands,
With shadows of palms, and shining sands,
Where the tumbling surf,
O’er the coral reefs of Madagascar,
Washes the feet of the swarthy Lascar,
As he lies alone and asleep on the turf.

from The Building of the Ship by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

the sailor considers the sea

Reid State Park, Georgetown, Maine

Now see these:

• love from bighappyfunhouse
• Bumper crop from Sopheava de Lumiere
• Escape To Light from Black and White Dreaming

traps

Maine Maritime Museum, Bath

Now see these:

• People Watching at the Panzano in Chianti Wine Fest from Rion.nu
• Italian Vice from Hmmm
• the guitarist from B&W

net

fishing net, Maine Maritime Museum, Bath

Now see these:

• Sidewinder: 1890 from Shorpy
• your hands make your body beautiful from the narrative
• Reflet de spahis from 26 fragments
• come away with me from kolamilch.de

mast

Maine Maritime Museum, Bath

Now see these:

• another morning from myphotosquare
• autumn from Dreams of light
• Still Waters from The Siao Dynasty
• Volley? from Luca Ariati

lines

Maine Maritime Museum, Bath

Now see these:

• Don’t look down from Aperture First
• untitled from I Take Faux Toes
• Women in Blue from Plaisirs Instantanes

from the hold

Maine Maritime Museum, Bath

Now see these:

• Whip from No Traces
• mass @ Nara from WasabiNoise
• Spiral from miChou
• Biblioteca de la Abadía de Monte Oliveto Maggiore from javier falco

Sherman Zwicker 3

Maine Maritime Museum, Bath

Now see these:

• cafe van kleef from your waitress
• Le Petit Fer à Cheval from Paris Cool
• das Schuppentier from pangolin

Sherman Zwicker 2

Maine Maritime Museum, Bath

Now see these:

• white cotton shirt from hanna birke
• breeze blowing pages from hanna birke
• Early Bird from Feldauge
• Keyhaven dawn from milou
• morning baseball game from 1965 monochrome

rigging

Maine Maritime Museum, Bath

Now see these:

• Children’s Room: 1941 from Shorpy
• Dark Waters from rich loves you
• PaTT in Black and White III from PaTTGReGoR

Sherman Zwicker 1

Maine Maritime Museum, Bath

Now see these:

• Dog’N'bike from Elaine
• where soho meets chinatown: london late in the evening from Rion.nu
• Hotel Babylon from Hmmm

tackle

Maine Maritime Museum, Bath

Now see these:

• … and don’t forget to bring your camera. from Still alive
• Kanuma Festival, Tochigi prefecture from underexposure
• Greece from talkin.nl
• Octopus Salad from Ride My Pony

rope

Maine Maritime Museum, Bath

Now see these:

• Kicker rock from Aperture First
• El Hombre Hormiguita !!! from …a view from the 6oh lens…
• Landergin TX from Electrolite
• Curtain from HELLO

coil

Maine Maritime Museum, Bath

Now see these:

• louvre from dying light
• last day in detroit from Puja Parakh
• untitled from Black and White Dreaming
• 439 from Edmund Leveckis

driftwood

Reid State Park, Georgetown, Maine

Now see these:

• hothouse from drawn in light
• The Slammer: 1919 from Shorpy
• Eureka from Million-Year Picnic

surf

Reid State Park, Georgetown, Maine

Now see these:

• stars and stripes from myphotosquare.com
• Holy from EYESPEAK
• When Time Stood Still from eye spy with my little eye
• Montmartre from BOITE A IMAGES

tidal pool

Reid State Park, Georgetown, Maine

Now see these:

• Firefighters from Andy Smith-Petersen
• Fog on the arête from Aperture First
• Rose Mary Cottage Garden from aandedijk.com

rescue boat 4

Burnt Island, near Boothbay, Maine

Now see these:

• Far West Portraits – 16 from DONC JE SUIS
• Venho from luotokuva
• i was sitting in mcsorley’s from your waitress
• Les Artisans du faubourg : exposition from pariscool

rescue boat 3

Burnt Island, near Boothbay, Maine

Now see these:

• assist from hanna birke
• Devoid from Feldauge
• Ramp from milou
• Two Chairs from 1965 monochrome

rescue boat 2

Burnt Island, near Boothbay, Maine

Now see these:

• Luca. from Elaine
• older east londoners just north of dalston junction from Rion.nu

rescue boat

Burnt Island, near Boothbay, Maine

Now see these:

• untitled from Drawn in Light
• Found Film: ILFORD Selochrome from Photo Utopia
• Cruisin’ 1968 from Shorpy

chalet for sale

Woodstock, Maine

Now see these:

• Dunescape from absolutelynothing
• vermont from myphotosquare
• Island shore from Jim Dugan

rail

Woodstock, Maine

barn 2

Woodstock, Maine

barn

Woodstock, Maine, shortly before the Norway-Paris tornado

Lake Christopher

Lake Christopher, Woodstock, Maine

Rescue Boat

Burnt Island Light, near Boothbay, Maine

Burnt Island Porch

Burnt Island Light, near Boothbay, Maine

Burnt Island Light 2

Burnt Island Light, near Boothbay, Maine

Burnt Island Light

Burnt Island Light, near Boothbay, Maine

When you send your children to the moon

And I had a dream it blows the autumn through my head
It felt like the first day of school
But I was going to the moon instead
And I walked down the hall
With the notebooks they got for me
My dad led me through the house
My mom drank instant coffee
And I knew that I would crash
But I didn’t want to tell them
There are just some moments when your family makes sense

Dar Williams, “End of the Summer”

School and work start tomorrow; it’s hard not to feel a little melancholy about summer’s end.

buoys

St. Croix State Park

swimming line

St. Croix State Park

Irvine Park Fountain III

Irvine Park, St. Paul

Irvine Park Fountain II

Irvine Park, St. Paul

Irvine Park Fountain I

Irvine Park, St. Paul

obelisk fountain

Saint Paul river front

falling most of my life

The night’s turned everything to junipers
shagged & spooked with cerulean chalk-fruit,
weird berries whiffing of Martians in rut.
I forget this isn’t my universe
sometimes. Sometimes I think I was falling
most of my life to land here, a lone skirl
in the immaculate hush. In my world
I waltzed with my ink-self, my black shantung.

Prairie Octopus, Awake by Nicky Beer

up the stairs

Science Museum of Minnesota

Science Museum

Science Museum of Minnesota

glass and sky

Science Museum of Minnesota

laddered

Science Museum of Minnesota

flair

Science Museum of Minnesota

égalité

Bastille Day, Barbette, Minneapolis

la liberté guidant le peuple

Bastille Day, Barbette, Minneapolis

around the world

Science Museum of Minnesota

the floating world 2

St. Croix State Park, Hinkley, MN

the floating world

St. Croix State Park, Hinkley, MN

floating on clouds

St. Croix State Park, Hinkley, MN

afloat 2

St. Croix State Park, Hinkley, MN

a

afloat

St. Croix State Park, Hinkley, MN

tether

St. Croix State Park, Hinkley, MN

split the sky

St. Croix State Park, Hinkley, MN

post

St. Croix State Park, Hinkley, MN

three

St. Croix State Park, Hinkley, MN

snowshoes

Snowshoes, Minnesota 150 exhibit at the Minnesota History Center museum

Now see these:

• friday from bighappyfunhouse
• jones shoe shine from electrolite
• untitled from rebecca

brick manhole 3

Abandoned manhole, Mississippi River

brick manhole 2

Abandoned manhole, Mississippi River

brick manhole

Abandoned manhole, Mississippi River

b

rivets 2

Storm water pipe, Mississippi River

rivets

Storm water pipe, Mississippi River

scrawl

Storm water pipe, Mississippi River

river pipe

Storm water pipe, Mississippi River

flowering porch

Milwaukee Avenue, Minneapolis

tulips

Milwaukee Avenue, Minneapolis, MN

tulips

Milwaukee Avenue, Minneapolis.

Now see these:

• 4 temps from Elaine
• Inside Bryce from Perspective Images
• at the old royal navy college in Greenwich from rion.nu
• Sushi Ho from Hmmm
• untitled from Vladimir Leiman

porch

Milwaukee Avenue, Minneapolis

The Happy Couple

From the museum cases at the Foshay Tower: Laurie Anders, star of the Western variety show “The Ken Murray Show,” when she served as the Aquatennial Grand Marshal in 1951; her co-star Bob Gross appears with her. I was intrigued with this picture when I first ran across it in 2004; no names were provided, though the location was obvious. A story came out of it, though not the real story, of course.

Now see these:

• Doors, Rt 1 Plaza from Andy Smith-Petersen
• Summit mushroom from Aperture First
• Lazy sunday in Montefortino from aan de dijk

Foshay reflections 2

Foshay Reflection

From the Foshay Tower observation deck.

observation deck: Wells Fargo

Foshay Tower, Minneapolis

observation deck: walkway 2

Foshay Tower, Minneapolis

observation deck: walkway

Foshay Tower, Minneapolis

observation deck: lookout

Foshay Tower, Minneapolis

Now see these:

• untitled from Drawn in Light
• Breaking Point: 1912 from Shorpy
• Wakefield 2009 from Mystery Me
• Poisson d’Avril from Million-Year Picnic

observation deck: viewers

Foshay Tower

Now see these:

• spring. time from myphotosquare
• Not of This World from absolutelynothing
• sea and boat from Dreams of Light

observation deck: caged tower

IDS Tower, from the Foshay Tower observation deck.

More about our Foshay visit here.

Now see these:

• Sauces from Andy Smith-Petersen
• Keeping an Eye from a view from the 6oh lens
• Stadsbrouwerij de Pelgrim from Aan de dijk

observation deck: monocular

Wells Fargo (née Norwest) Center, from the observation deck on the Foshay Tower.

See video of our Foshay Tower visit here.

Oread

Whirl up, sea—
whirl your pointed pines,
splash your great pines
on our rocks,
hurl your green over us,
cover us with your pools of fir.

Oread, H.D.

The Collected Poems of H.D.

Como Conservatory, St. Paul

quiver

Are you alive?
I touch you.
You quiver like a sea-fish.
I cover you with my net.
What are you—banded one?

The Pool by H.D.

Como Conservatory, St. Paul

Now see these:

• Monet from Aperture First
• Winter Trees from Montmartre
• Rainbow Chopsticks from Intelligent Cloud

The sweet old songs they knew

When the mists divide with the dawn o’er those glittering waters,
Do they gaze over unoared seas—
Naiad and nymph and the woodland’s rose-crowned daughters
And the Oceanides?
Do they sing together, perchance, in that diamond splendour,
That world of dawn and dew,
With eyelids twitching to tears and with eyes grown tender,
The sweet old songs they knew,
The songs of Greece? Ah, with harp-strings mute do they falter
As the earth like a small star pales?
When the heroes launch their ship by the smoking altar
Does a memory lure their sails?
Far, far away, do their hearts resume the story
That never on earth was told,
When all those urgent oars on the waste of glory
Cast up its gold?

At Dawn by Alfred Noyes

Como Conservatory, St. Paul

Now see these:

• Cafe from No Traces
• boulevard cowboy from Electrolite
• untitled from rebecca

do you but this

Reach with your whiter hands to me
Some crystal of the spring;
And I about the cup shall see
Fresh lilies flourishing.

Or else, sweet nymphs, do you but this–
To th’ glass your lips incline;
And I shall see by that one kiss
The water turn’d to wine.

To the Water-Nymphs Drinking at the Fountain by Robert Herrick

“Play Days” by Harriet Frishmuth, Como Conservatory, St. Paul

Now see these:

• The Pigeon Who Came To Tea from Black and White Dreaming
• Destiny holds from Graciform
• 417 from Edmund Leveckis

love to live in dimple sleek

Haste thee nymph, and bring with thee
Jest and youthful Jollity,
Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles,
Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles,
Such as hang on Hebe’s cheek,
And love to live in dimple sleek

L’Allegro, John Milton

“Play Days” by Harriet Frishmuth, Como Park Conservatory, Saint Paul

too busy to be wise

Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes,
Whom Pleasure keeps too busy to be wise,
Whom Joys with soft varieties invite,
By day the frolic, and the dance by night,
Who frown with vanity, who smile with art,
And ask the latest fashion of the heart,
What care, what rules your heedless charms shall save,
Each nymph your rival, and each youth your slave?

Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes

“Play Days” by Harriet Frishmuth, Como Park Conservatory, St. Paul.

ancestor pole

Minneapolis Institute of Art, New Guinea exhibit

Now see these:

• Seats from Aperture First
• crowded from apparently nothing
• Seagull Breakwall from Found in Focus
• Rails from WAK-Design

shields

Asmat shields, New Guinea exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art

Now see these:

• Cliff from Elaine
• KwaZulu Natal Sharks Board #2 from Hmmm
• Memory from NO PHOTO NO MUSIC ? NO LIFE

take this body craving to return

Touch my hand and feel my haunted fever
take this body craving to return
back amongst my Wantoks now and ever
Papua New Guinea – how I yearn.

New Guinea Dreaming by Graeme King

Spirit mask, New Guinea exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Invitation to Dance

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Now see these:

• Bonsecours from Craig Persel
• Coniston Water, Cumbria from Ian Bramham
• Reaching for a Turtle from Dan Kim

Doryphoros 3

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Now see these:

• Blue Speckled from Montmartre
• irish coast from apparently nothing
• no swimming from photoetic
• Banderas de oración from El Color de tu mirada

Arndt gallery

Tom Arndt’s Minnesota gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Art

Now see these:

• Red Rock Coulee #4 from hanna birke
• branching from Feldauge
• weeping pussy willow from Mad Media Studios
• on the street from 1965 monochrome

bodhisattva shadows

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Now see these:

• School Days from Perspective Images
• an afternoon watching kids chase bubbles in berlin from Rion.nu
• the most optimistic homeless man from unphotographable
• Dog’n'bike from Elaine

Doryphoros 2

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Doryphoros

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Now see these:

• Nemesis from Elaine
• furry creatures enjoy city life along the thames river from Rion.nu
• untitled from rebecca
• The Shadow of the Durham Church Steeple on Low-Hanging Rain Clouds as a Car Goes By from A Walk Through Durham Township

Frank

“Frank” by Chuck Close, Minneapolis Institute of Art

Now see these:

• the simple things in life from dying light
• The Pigeon Who Came To Tea from Black and White Dreaming
• At Groenendaal from AGGIEPHOTOFLOW
• Faro de Favaritx from Enrique Vidal
• beneath the steps. from 5-Blend oolong

Arndt gallery

The Tom Arndt Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibit.

This is a great exhibit, with lots of Arndt’s street photography and a little film that shows Arndt at work, both in the field and in the darkroom. A new book of his Minnesota photographs, Home: Tom Arndt’s Minnesota, with an introduction by Garrison Keillor, is out from the University of Minnesota Press.

Now see these:

• Porträtt from A’la Foto
• Fleur 131 Daisy from Image Coffee Grey
• Lobster Trap from FotoBlography
• Wallace River from Stranded in Kenmare

gallery shadows 3

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Now see these:

• Up and down from Feldauge
• Sand Patterns from milou
• The Piano Man from Urban Ghost

gallery heads

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Now see these:

• Suits from Aperture First
• Polli from Motmartre
• Black and White Flowers from Photine
• Hung on from photoskiasi

veiled

Veiled Lady by Raffaelo Monti, Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Now see these:

• the simple things in life from dying light
• Contemplation II from Regard croisé
• That’s Entertainment! from Urban Nation

docent 2

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Now see these:

• Carnaval from donc je suis
• Discarded from Catherine Buca
• Kivasti on puu siellä from luotokuva
• blues man from your waitress
• Au comptoir de la Fourmi from ParisCool

docent

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Now see these:

• Old Books from Archerfoto
• The Great Escape from Elaine
• unknown people #17 from yiannis krikis

gaze

Minneapolis Institute of Art

twigs and twine 2

Dowling Community Garden, Minneapolis.

twigs and twine

Dowling Community Garden, Minneapolis.

A happy St. Patrick’s Day to all! If you’re of a more pensive nature than the average pint-hoister, you might want to take a look at another project of mine: I’ve been translating a collection of poems by Michael Davitt from Irish (a.k.a. “Gaelic”) to English. Remember that even though Irish is a strange and parochial language, it is the native tongue of God and His angels, so you might want to learn a little verse in the event that you should show up at the Pearly Gates and need to bluff your way in without benefit of native blarney skills.

garden angel

Dowling Community Garden, Minneapolis.

Now see these:

• Synecdoche Gothenburg from graciform
• 50 cent view from Sopheava de Lumiere
• 414 from Edmund Leveckis

trunk and snow

Now that we are all dead, no matter.
Snow recedes from the trees,
hulls of hemisphere where the trunks go in,
and we’ve come back to the den where we spent our
children’s lives playing games that were extinct
in foreign languages we’d forgotten how to speak.

Old People’s Holiday by Mary Kinzie

Now see these:

• cold from myphotosqure
• Ghost Ship from Jim Duggan
• Dawn, 5th March 2009 from Tristan Campbell

skyline and screen

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Now see these:

• Crowd from Aperture First
• Cambodian Monk With Unbrella from View From the Tundra
• Spinnin’ Music from a view from the 6oh lens

ready to launch

Mississippi River Gorge, south of Lake Street

Now see these:

• Slient Winter from Perspective Images
• Washington Hotel from Elaine
• another city behind us: a last post from paris from rion.nu

up the hill

Mississippi River Gorge, south of Lake Street.

Now see these:

• Mike Evans: 1943 from Shorpy
• untitled from rebecca
• expositions from incidence
• lakeshore cairns, 2009 from Under the Amber Moon
• Cub Scout Ceremony Opening from A Walk Through Durham County
• pondering from bighappyfunhouse

trudge

Mississippi River Gorge, south of Lake Street.

Now see these:

• Woodland dawn from absolutely nothing
• into the land of snow from Peter Izarik
• Munich Subway I from phototraveler.de
• Playing With Fire from Bit’s Photography

winter shadows 3

Mississippi River Gorge, south of Lake Street.

Now see these:

• seatac airport from Puja Parakh
• Predict the day from graciform
• Early morning from Sopheava de Lumiere
• 413 from Edmund Leveckis

winter fence

Mississippi River Gorge, south of East Lake Street.

Now see these:

• Array from Feldauge
• Machrihanish Bay from milou
• Snowstorm from Mirror the world

sled prep

If you haven’t got your sled ready, now might be a good time to do it.

Now see these:

• Dutch Gap: 1864 from Shorpy
• Untitled from Mystery Me
• La mal from Jonny Photography
• Set The Mood from marcus claesson

hill shadow 2

Mississippi River Gorge, south of Lake Street, Minneapolis

Now see these:

• Snowy Bridge (2009) from Andy Smith-Petersen
• A day at the beach from Aperture First
• Old New York Subway Car from taraville

shadow on the hill

Mississippi River Gorge, south of Lake Street, Minneapolis.

Now see these:

• cologne cathedral from dying light
• Pajama Man, Beijing from SteveBarru
• Chair city from The Maggot
• Parc de Pointe aux Trembles, rue Notre-Dame from une jour_une photographie
• La main sur l’épaule from Jean-Benoît Maréchal
• 5th Ave.tourists and a local… from imagediary

under the wing

MinneapolisHennepin County Public Library, downtown Minneapolis.

Now see these:

• Embrace the White from Feldauge
• shinjuku from 1965 monocrhome
• From this way from Here, And Gone
• Shaker Meeting House from Monochrome Capture

braces and beams

Minneapolis Hennepin County Public Library, downtown Minneapolis.

Now see these:

• Coming 2 life from Elaine
• Snap from Hmmm
• Desillusion from Richard Vanek
• Still Roaming from Perspective Images

Buddhas in the Gallery

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Now see these:

• untitled from drawn in light
• Satyricon: 1925 from Shorpy
• Untitled from Mystery Me
• sarah and craig 1 from the narrative

gallery shadows 2

Minneapolis Institute of Art

gallery shadows

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Now see these:

• untitled from dying light
• aurora ave from Puja Parakh
• Imminent from bighappyfunhouse

rock climber

Peabody River, near Gorham, New Hampshire.

Now see these:

• Kohti Kalasatamaa from luotokuva
• Au comptoir de la Fourmi from ParisCool
• a geometer’s delight… from incidence
• road to nowhere from Eletrolite

rough and round

Peabody River, near Gorham, New Hampshire.

Now see these:

• bad weather #5 – travel on and bad weather #2 – early morning snow plow at Alice Lake from hanna birke
• Silently from Feldauge
• winter roost from Mad Media Studios

the other shore

Peabody River, near Gorham, New Hampshire.

rough water

Peabody River, near Gorham, New Hampshire.

roots and rocks

Peabody River, near Gorham, New Hampshire.

Now see these:

• Queen St E. 1798 from myphotosquare
• Winter Wonderland from absolutely nothing
• secrets.. from dreams of light
• Abandoned Wine Factory II from Enrique Vidal

shadow and stone

Peabody River, near Gorham, New Hampshire.

Now see these:

• Untitled from maditi
• A Climber Without Mountains: II – Prusik Knot from Aperture First
• seagull over snow from apparently nothing

goal

Longfellow Park, Minneapolis.

Now see these:

• Dry Stone Point of View from Black and White Dreaming
• 109 Earths from graciform
• Bearbeitet from visible-on

face off

Longfellow Park, Minneapolis.

Now see these:

• walking the new neighborhood in record london snowfall from Rion.nu
• Tall grass from Richard Vanek
• Abundant Cattails from erik.photoblog
• Ferme de Núpsstaður from François-Noël MASSON

neighborhood rink

Longfellow Park, Minneapolis.

Now see these:

• Resistentzia from Regard croisé
• Porte from manuamador
• Kristina… from Tonya R. Smith
• just the basic amenities from darren green {takes photos}
• Low Light from morning life

goal keeper

Longfellow Park, Minneapolis.

Now see these:

• antinegativ.ro from myphotosquare
• Frozen Treat from Wild.Life.Photography
• fine and dandy from Daedalus’ Photos

on ice

Longfellow Park, Minneapolis.

Now see these:

• Momanimal from Aperture First
• Teething Pony from …a view from the 6oh lens…
• Patterns from Willow Tree
• (114) from Marzia
• Snowscape from Lightseeker

Sledding at Cedar Avenue and Minnehaha Parkway.

Now see these:

• border whiteout from dying light
• she has recorded her dreams for thirtyodd years from Under the Amber Moon
• Oh Zakir! Chennai is waiting for you! from Traces

launch

Our favorite sledding hill, at Cedar Avenue and Minnehaha Parkway, features a mound of ice that’s perfect for launching your sled skyward.

Now see these:

• Jackson Lake, Grand Tetons, Wyoming from Perspective Images
• NYC Graphics from Elaine
• The Photographer from Memento Mori

big air

Our favorite sledding hill, at Cedar Avenue and Minnehaha Parkway, features a mound of ice that’s perfect for launching your sled skyward.

snack shack

Reid State Park, Georgetown, Maine.

Now see these:

• song from myphotosquare
• Winter Wonderland from absolutelynothing
• musée national d’art moderne – centre pompidou from Les Particules Etranges

wave

Reid State Park, Georgetown, Maine.

Now see these:

• *Gasp* from …a view from the 6oh lens…
• 444 from cuchulainn
• Parks from Aizmiga

kelp bed

Reid State Park, Georgetown, Maine.

Now see these:

• . from dying light
• Yup, it’s still winter from Sopheava de Lumiere
• untitled from Susanne Stoop
• Nebel an der Victoria Sicht from Ruegen im Licht
• Along the fence in the snow from gavin lyons
• Leaves from Stranded in Kenmare

water meets stone

Reid State Park, Georgetown, Maine.

Round many western islands have I been

Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.

from On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer, John Keats

Reid State Park, Georgetown, Maine.

Now see these:

• ight on the wall as i bounce off my failings with you once again from Hanna Birke
• Just reed from Feldauge
• Seven from milou
• Plaid geese on sooke harbour from Mad Media Studios
• new year’s lanterns from 1965 monochrome

stone and shore

Reid State Park, Georgetown, Maine.

Now see these:

• Standing on the Shore from Perspective Images
• Running man from Elaine
• Stones from Richard Vanek
• Plaid Umbrella Hamster Cage Freeway from Unphotographable

pile

Reid State Park, Georgetown, Maine.

Now see these:

• Inaugural Ball: 1925 from Shorpy
• Sunderland 2009 from Mystery Me
• Testing the Ice on Lake Nockamixon from A Walk Through Durham Township
• Drying Books I from 741231
• One Moment Please from Portitxol

furrows and grooves

Reid State Park, Georgetown, Maine.

Now see these:

• Inauguration, Jake’s studio from fourteen places to eat
• Balance from bighappyfunhouse
• Rockland Breakwater in winter from Jim Dugan’s PhotoBlog
• ghosts from myphotosquare
• sometimes heart.. from dreams of light

Barack Otrama

That’s this guy, not this guy. East Lake Street, Minneapolis.

It’s finally here, right?

Now see these:

• holding on from apparently nothing
• Grace from Aperture First
• untitled from maditi

goodbye to all that

Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, August 2008.

Today is the last full day of the Bush Administration, hardly enough time to start a war on false pretenses; botch the evacuation and recovery of a major city; establish a secret prison; abdicate responsibility for the oversight of financial, environmental, workplace, and consumer safety regulations; or nationalize more sectors of the economy in a perverse socialism for the rich. But that’s no reason not to try!

Now see these:

• untitled from Under the Amber Moon
• . from dying light
• Weighty Problem from Black and White Dreaming
• 410 from Edmund Leveckis
• Farewell Letter from Skydancer’s Photography

fungus

Peabody River, near Gorham, New Hampshire; Graflex 4×5 pinhole.

Now see these:

• untitled from shallow greys
• Petite neige sur le Lac Daumesnil from Paris Cool
• White symmetry from maxbelloni
• Dead Tree from Charlene Collins

Peabody shelf

Peabody River, near Gorham, New Hampshire; Graflex 4×5 pinhole.

riverstone

Peabody River, near Gorham, New Hampshire; Graflex 4×5 pinhole.

Now see these:

• Swans from Drawn in Light
• Naked Lunch: 1920 from Shorpy
• fog patch from the narrative

puck and stick

Longfellow Park rink, Minneapolis.

Now see these:

• Jumping Hay Bales in a Snowstorm from A Walk Through Durham Township
• vivian from bighappyfunhouse
• Polka Pola from Montmartre
• holding on from apparently nothing