Favored Painting
Whenever I get up to Duluth, I like to visit the galleries down on Canal Street. I always visit the Art Dock. There are racks and racks of photos and paintings of the north shore and shipping and the city of Duluth. Every year I flip through the artwork, seeing which paintings and photos are […]
Hunting
It’s easy to show up after a meaningful weekend at the Jesuit retreat house at DeMontreville, outside Lake Elmo Minnesota; spending the time stumbling through a sliver of the “Exercises” Ignatius Loyola wrote centuries ago; three days ‘disposed’ to solitude, silence, self-reflection. Half-way through coffee with a fellow pilgrim on the Monday morning after, a […]
Fall Colors
If there’s one thing You can count on in the fall in Minnesota; it’s boats — for sale. There’s boats all over the place — like this green one. Hand painted green. Good time to be looking, and maybe buying.
Walking Stick
This little walking stick was on the wall on the front porch yesterday. Strange creatures. It was only about 5 inches long and I somehow caught a glimpse out the corner of my eye. In Borneo they grow to 13 inches in length. More Info… I don’t know how old this one is; Must be a […]
Classic pink
In San Diego last week I ran headlong in California; it was awesome. Beaches, great shopping, 75 degrees, personalized license plates and all the easy-going business that I associate with this great state. I took some photos I really like. The zoo, real estate, the beach. I found some ‘meetings’ in the University Heights district not far […]
Boink
Sometime in the last ninety years, somebody was designing a logo for a business; an extermination business; Western Exterminators. This week in San Diego, I awoke to the sight of the house across the street completely covered with huge sheets of canvas, held tightly together with clips and weighed down along the bottom with sandbags. […]
Choo Choo Bobs
Not sure how much better it could be for a kid that loves trains and cheeseburgers than an hour or so playing with little wooden trains at Choo Choo Bob’s Train Store in St Paul, followed by a visit to McDonald’s. My cell phone didn’t work in Choo Choo Bob’s. An unexpected gift.
Outboard Bound
May means fishing. Fishing means boats. Boats mean outboard motors. And there is no better place to take an old outboard for the repair You put off last fall than Twin City Outboard down in Savage, MN. Twin City is an old joint packed to the rafters with motors dating back to 1906. Gas motors, trolling […]
Tall pine; back nine.
There is a long, tall slender pine on the back nine of what, over the last 18 years, had become my favorite place to play golf; not far from where one brother threw a pitching wedge far into the woods in disgust, another hit a 290 yard drive and where last Sunday, I played what […]
Roman Disco
Last Sunday at the Minneapolis Institute of Art we happened by this bust — Roman? — that caught me completely off guard. At first glance I actually thought it was a joke!! I’ve never notice a classical statue or bust with hair like this and a mustache to boot! I thought, “Wow, 1974.” Son-in-law Matt said, “What […]