Full white blossoms on tree branches against a bright blue sky

Spring Snow

Beautiful flowers on this Spring Snow Crabapple tree… Photo: Brian Donahue

stacks of wooden orange crates with Customer Service desk and people in background

Home Improvement

Exploring the rows at ReStore—where the inventory constantly changes. Photo: Brian Donahue

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

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

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

Gray building with mural depicting a diversity of faces in an abstracted flag design with red , white, and blue colors

Aikido All Day

Aikido focuses on harmonizing with opponent. (East Lake Aikido) Photo: Brian Donahue

tan-colored dog with hanging tongue and backpack in foreground with a black and a white dog with people in the background

Dog Days of Summer

Quality off-leash time in the dog park. Photo: Brian Donahue

Lots of children and a few adults in a wading pool on a sunny day

Summer Cool

Great place to chill out on a hot afternoon… Photo: Brian Donahue

rred and yellow flowers with green foilage and white picket fence in background

Geraniums and petunias in my window box.  Photo: Roxanne Dunlop

white archway with pergolas as entrance to a large flower garden

Flowers Elevated

Morning walk above Highway 55… Photo: Brian Donahue

Closeup of hops buds with green leaves

Community Hops

Exploring the several varieties of hops… Photo: 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

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

Festive Winter Yard

Incredible holiday lawn display… Photo: Chris Balck