Year: 2019

Three teenage girls pose, one sitting, two standing together, in front of a pool, with an old arched stone structure in background

Coldwater Restoration

These bicyclists stopped for a hike around Coldwater Spring… Photo: Brian Donahue

White wall of a building with two windows and a single row of building wrap at the top with the brand Wraptor and a bird of prey logo

Raptor House

This old house may have been a chicken coop back in the day… Photo: David Skarjune

Summer in Longfellow

Rich Matson and the Northstars for Music in the Parks… Photo: Carri Musil

several people standing with bicycles with racks of many bicycles behind and overhead

Get Me Some Wheels

Bikes floor to ceiling and tents outside… Photo: Katie Simon-Dastych

oval cactus leaves along a sidewalk hedge of thick green plantings

Crop of Cactus

Wonders never cease in Minnesota… Photo: Helen Miller

young person at bat with a baseball on a pole seen from behind homeplate looking out at other kids on the diamond

T-Ball

Summer action in our parks. Photo: Dave MacCallum

A skateboarding young man is in midair, arms outstretched, skateboard flipped sideways underfoot, above a narrow cement ramp down to the ground, as two companions watch, and one is holding a video camera

Backside

Not a skateboard park, but popular for some aerobatics… Photo: David Skarjune

long line of people outside a park building on a summer day

Sea Salt Lines

If the day is beautiful…long lines… Photo: Carri Musil

looking up through big green oak leaves on a tree trunk with boughs above

Oak Tree Canopy

Leaves sprouting on trunk of a large oak… Photo: Michelle van Kuijk

winding asphalt hiking trail with black railing and lots of greenery

Lower Trail

Near Winchell Trail offWest River Parkway… Photo: Roxanne Dunlop

stack of rough wooden boards

Tree Work

Arborist neighbor stacked these massive cuts… Photo: Helen Miller

from beneath shade of trees, in the distance is a bicyclist and cars approaching on a roadway

Entering Longfellow

Bike commuter crosses into Minneapolis. Photo: Dave MacCallum

A construction excavator tears into an aged two-story yellow clapboard building, with a new five-story building in background

The Ups and Downs of 46th

As apartment dwellers move into a new building… Photo Credit: Brian Donahue

Peonies Down

Now, you know it’s really summertime. Photo: David Skarjune

Back porch of a white house with a rainbow Pride flag hanging over the railing

Pride

Photo: Carri Musil

chipmunk sitting on a cement porch with hosta and green foilage in background

Baby Chipmunk

Just hanging out on the front doorstep… Photo: Michelle van Kuijk

Tray of Minnesota state-shaped rainbow-frosted cookies.

MN Pride Cookies

Sweet option this weekend at Savory Bake House… Photo: René V. Rosengren

closeup of German Shepherd dog with snout near a tiny fairy on a swing over a hosta plant.

Fairy? What Fairy?

Some will see them…others will not! Photo: Helen Miller

man in T-shirt and shorts leaning against back of a small truck carrying six paddleboards on a rack, in a garage port with a painted sign on top with PADDLE NORTH and loon logo

Paddling North

Preparing for a moving sale to Nordeast… Photo: Brian Donahue

Hand holding a card with a "Waystation" title and sketches of butterflies in a garden patch with a real monarch butterfly hovering

Butterfly Release

First of many releases this season… Photo: Carri Musil

Couple from behind, walking down sidewalk past a green, yellow, and white sign for "Midtown Farmer's Market, with stalls and popup coverings along with sidewalk

Market Going Strong

Midtown Farmers Market on a 95º day… Photo: Michelle van Kuijk

yellow flower blossoms atop oval-shaped, spiked cactus leaves

Cactus Flower

Struck that this cactus survives our winter. Photo Susan Purdle

Four glasses of cider colored pale straw to light red with bottles and background out of focus with bar and people

Cider House Rules

Sampling the array of ciders… Photo: Brian Donahue

hosts and potted flowers with four small USA flags, glass globes and a cement statue of little girl in garden

No Fireworks

Just a little patriotism on the block. Photo: David Skarjune

soiled hands with red-stained fingers holding some blackberries

Berry Picking

Dowling Community Garden. Photo: Carri Musil

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