category archive: photos

The Chickadee Cottage Cafe

The Chickadee Cottage Cafe

A warmer, greener time.

Brule River

Brule River in Judge C. R. Magney State Park, Minnesota

Only one thousand words for you today.

Charles Station

Charles Station on the Red Line, Boston, Massachusetts

I’ll share this quote I randomly came across this morning:

Let Us Pray

Praying Mantis

Our house mantis didn’t make it, but there is this one, out in “the wild.” I like her alien shadow on the iris leaf.

Dragonfly

Dragonfly

It’s a Metal Chicken

He’s free range for now, until I nail down his feet by our front door:

Metal Chicken (of type Rooster)

Maybe you want to point out that it’s a rooster? Yes, of course he’s a rooster, but still a chicken, and it’s clearly more fun to say, “metal chicken.”

I think a large part of the reason I bought this thing is because [...]

The Monster

More than the motion sickness, the truly monstrous thing about this ride is the loading and unloading time.

The Monster (Midway Ride)

Another Dam Post

This is the Mississippi River above the Coon Rapids Dam:

Mississippi River

(And six more of the river and the dam…)

Walking through the woods the other day…

…I startled an Ent!

A surprised Ent

Falling

Water falling over the Coon Rapids Dam on the Mississippi River in Minnesota

It’s all water over the dam.

(And two more…)