empty park bench amidst a snowy scene in the park with mostly bare trees and some light brown leaves

Winter Melt

Despite gloomy skies, 40º & walking dogs… Photo: Sue Romain

snow-covered patio outside yellow stone building with yellow stone bench and two plastic geodesic domes behind a black iron fence

Winter Patio Dining

Year-round in the Bold North… Photo: Sue Romain

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

Location: 34xx East 31st Street One allowable reason for leaving the home … READ MORE

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

green patch of thick leaves, blossoms, buds, and darkening yellow to deep purple round fruits

Early Eggplant

Buds, blossoms and fruit… Photo: Jane Strauss

a man stands next to a police car under a traffic light at a street corner with painted boards and graffiti

Police Appreciation

next to “Stop Police Brutality”… Photo: Jane Strauss

tan church building with tall tower and spire with a cross on top

Improvements

Location: Thee House UV Beth-El, 4016 East 32nd Street Photo: Jane Strauss … READ MORE

yellow bench next to little yellow house-shaped box on a post next to a larger round container on a post with fence and garden behind

Sidewalk Endeavors

with library, chalk and more… Photo: Jane Strauss