Brian Donahue

Tall gray grain elevators receding against a blue sky towering over a bungalow house in front

Standing Tall

A house competes for light next to towering silos… Photo: Brian Donahue

Long single-story white industrial building with large white on dark gray signage across the top reading: HIAWATHA LUMBER CO. with other faded lettering

Wood Stock

Hiawatha Lumber has provided wood that built many Longfellow homes… Photo: Brian Donahue

Three wild turkeys grazing on grass with a woman walking a dog in background

Turkey Strut

Thanksgiving on the mind… Photo: Brian Donahue

Double bunch of ripe purple grapes with green vine and lease

Harvest Time

Harvesting the grapes before raccoons & birds… Photo: Brian Donahue

nighttime street scene of a lit-up storefront with a large bright sign reading TOWN TALK DINER

Talk of the Town

This historic diner opened with 15 seats in 1946… Photo: Brian Donahue

Neon-lit diner at night with blurred car lights in foreground

Hi-Lo There

Fodero Dining Car spent 60 years in Gibsonia, PA… Photo: Brian Donahue

a few adults play with a few youngsters, one on a small bicycle, in a paved lot with small ramps

Warm Night Out

Riding the ramps at One on One Bicycle Studio. Photo: Brian Donahue

Three white barrels painted with bees, trees, and flowers with the words BEE THE CHANGE against a red brick wall

Bee the Change

Rain barrels collect some thoughtful messaging. Photo: Brian Donahue

Nighttime scene on wet roadway with gleaming yellow streetlamps, and a faint image of a figure with an umbrella overhead in the rain

Rain Man

Capping off a rainy day with more rain… Photo: Brian Donahue

white coaster bicycle hanging under a dark gray metal superstructure under a bridge

Ghost Ride

A ghost bike hangs under the Short Line bridge… Photo: Brian Donahue

Crew rowing in a long low boat on the river with fall color trees on banks in background

Fall Crew

UMN Crew team gets some practice… Photo: Brian Donahue

Storefront windows with signage above reading MIGIZI with a logo graphic of geometric shapes

Migizi

Migizi means bald eagle in the Ojibwe language… Photo: Brian Donahue

Brick wall with painting of arched fork with a pickle on the end, and a truck parked in foreground

Forkbridge and Pickle

Mural by local artist Nancy Hylden. Photo: Brian Donahue

Two-story, four-square, white clapboard house with gray roof and black window trim

Win This House

This Scandinavian-inspired house is being given away… Photo: Brian Donahue

wide view of running waterfall with surrounding icy walls in mostly blue shadow with some sunlight on the right side

It’s Happening

Icicles beginning to form on Minnehaha Falls… Photo: Brian Donahue

storefront window lights across a street in the evening with trails of car lights streaming across the picture

Bienvenidos Estudiantes

New Spanish Immersion Daycare & Preschool on Minnehaha… Photo: Brian Donahue

snowy scene at night under streetlamps with house in background and treelimbs in foreground

Got Shovel?

Reminded I never replaced my broken shovel… Photo: Brian Donahue

Green neon outline of a cactus plant in a window scene with pinkish-purple grow lights and many plants in background

Cacti City

Fractal Cactus is a new store on Minnehaha… Photo: Brian Donahue

Very large snowball on a sidewalk in a snowy street scene with cars & lights in background

Watch for Rocks

…gift the snowplow left behind… Photo: Brian Donahue

Snowy parking lot at night with an orange food truck under a street light with a person ordering at the truck window, and a red and white FALLS LIQUOR sign next to it

Snow Falls

Stepping out to the food truck… Photo: Brian Donahue

Flock of geese flying over snow-covered railroad tracks with a gray-blue sky and buildings on both skies and tall electric poles in background

Good for the Gander

…on tracks behind Longfellow Station… Photo: Brian Donahue

A man and two children bundled in winter clothes reflected in a large puddle of water with a park building in the background

Sea Melt

…mirror reflection of Sea Salt… Photo: Brian Donahue

three long blue large snaking pipes run from foreground to background over grass along a parkway

Totally Tubular

Metro Council Environmental Services at work… Photo: Brian Donahue

bicyclists going down a parkway road next to orange traffic cones down the middle of the roadway

Pedestrians Only

…on northbound West River Parkway… Photo: Brian Donahue

Colorful storefont door and windows with sign painted on door window reading SWING IN BY APPT

Swing In

Time to redecorate? By appointment… Photo: Brian Donahue

Looking over top of a black iron fence with pointy bars, front yard with green grass and trees, amber colored siding house with porch window showing a mannequin

Security Measures

Jason stands guard… Photo: Brian Donahue

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