Two boys with a wagon of pumpkins with a man and lots of orange pumpkins around them

Holiday Shopping

Finding the perfect pumpkins at Mother Earth’s “pumpkin patch”… Photo: Jane Strauss

two bungalow houses with front yard features as described

Longfellow Front Yards

Common characteristics of many Longfellow front yards are… Photo: Jane Strauss

glowing golden brown maple leaf oon a tan slight with faint bubbles

Remnant of Autumn

Frozen in between snow bursts… Photo: Jane Strauss

Brown leaves on snow-covered tree limbs with tiny snowflakes falling in foreground

Seasonal Transition

Usually by now, maples have shed their leaves… Photo: Jane Strauss

three-story red brick building from corner view

Minnehaha Commons

at the old Poodle/McMahon’s corner… Photo: Jane Strauss

Snowy night scene of bus stop lit by streetlights and car lights with retail signs in background

Long Nights

…at this deserted bus stop… Photo: Jane Strauss

View of construction site with cars in a parking lot, low buildings, and a tall red construction crane

Midtown Corner

Construction on a multi-use complex…
(click to see full panorama)
Photo: Jane Strauss

Sunlight church constructed of red brick, stone, and glass with a tall bell tower and spire on the left side.

Big and Little

Minnehaha Communion Lutheran Church, Photo: Jane Strauss

Wide one-story tan brick building with a low sloping roof at wintertime on a city corner

Mid-Century Modern

Bread of Life Church, Photo: Jane Strauss

Blue and white shed-shaped box on a pole with colorful painting to look like a small house with "Anne's Library" over the doorway

Anne’s Library

…is a bit craftier than others… Photo: Jane Strauss

White corner church building with three-story tower, but no steeple

Charming Older Church

Iglesia De Dios Tabernáculo Consejero Fiel… Photo: Jane Strauss

large two-story brick building with a tall tower, both rectangular shapes, against a clear full blue sky

Christ Church Lutheran

…is a National Historic Landmark in the Longfellow… Photo: Jane Strauss

empty street corner intersection with storefront buildings and overhead red stoplight

Ghost Town

…no traffic nor cars parked… Photo: Jane Strauss

bright green pointy sprouts coming out of the ground with brown leaves and plant stems

Early Tulip

as gardens are waking up… Photo: Jane Strauss

man and young boy on bicycles on a city street posed for the camera on a sunny day

Out for Exercise

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Snow-topped evergreen bushes in a sculpted front-yard garden

Garden a la Japonais

with a sparkle of April snow… Photo: Jane Strauss

Bright green well-trimmed shrubery in front of a 1-1/2 story gray clapboard house

Oriental Spring

What a difference 2 weeks makes… Photo: Jane Strauss

colorful arty graffiti with tags over checkerboard patterns along bottom panel of an old brown brick building

Street Art

Is it sanctioned…? Photo: Jane Strauss

Closeup of two flower bud balls, one large one small stripped with pink, red, and green colors

Ready, Set…

Peonies with 3 stages of bloom… Photo: Jane Strauss

remains of building with rubble and smoke

Aftermath

Four days after burning… Photo: Jane Strauss

closeup peony flower with bright white-magenta petals, deep green leaves, against a wooden background

Peony

Backyard in bloom… Photo: Jane Strauss

row of sidewalk cafe tables with diners in summer dress and sunglasses under table umbrellas

Cafe Society

Neighborhood begins to open… Photo: Jane Strauss

artist on a ladder painting a very large mural of a blue and white mountainscape seen over a fence and parking lot with a mural-painted SUV vehicle

Himalayan Parking

Mural by Martha Floerchinger… Photo: Jane Strauss

Front of red brick church building with yellow stone details and a large stone cross over the dooway

Open Door

St. Albert’s reopens… Photo: Jane Strauss