Cue the Americana music

Spent some time in Morris, MN this past weekend, about three hours west and slightly north of the Twin Cities, for a family get-together and had a chance to explore a bit of the area. This was taken just a couple miles from the downtown area.

Black and white boom-boom

Battlefield cannon, Gettysburg, PA.

Living on the edge

Baltimore style. Near Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Outfield

Eutaw Street, Camden Yards, Baltimore, with the Bromo-Seltzer clock tower in the distance. From Wikipedia: Emerson Tower often referenced as Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower is a 15-story, 88 m (289 ft) skyscraper erected in 1911 at the corner of Eutaw and Lombard Streets in Baltimore, Maryland, designed by Joseph Evans Sperry for Bromo-Seltzer inventor “Captain" Isaac E. Emerson.

Rain or shine

Eutaw (sounds pretty much like “Utah") Street, Camden Yards, Baltimore.

O faces

Baltimore, MD, post-Orioles game.

Fountain for two

Gettysburg College campus, PA.

Triple X.

Sach’s Bridge over Marsh Creek, Gettysburg, PA.

Gettysburg College campus and Stevens Run

Both supposedly haunted.

You say Sauches, I say Sachs

Sach's Covered Bridge, Gettysburg, PA. One of four remaining covered bridges in Adams County.

Steel wheels

Somewhere in the hinterlands between the TCF Stadium at the U of M, the Witches Hat at Prospect Park, Dinkytown, and the edge of St. Paul.

New band instrument

This young gent is about to lay down a solo on the incredibly hard-to-master iCymbal. Minneapolis Aquatennial.

Stop me when I'm passing by

Aquatennial, Minneapolis

Tuba players, REPRESENT

Aquatennial parade, Minneapolis

R.T. Rybak, Dance Machine

Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak, busting out the moves at the Aquatennial like some kind of a Mick Jagger.

Art in media res

Artist, art instructor, and all-around gentleman Terry Williams. I chatted him up briefly at yesterday’s Lyngblomsten Mid-Summer Festival. He’s also appearing at Highlandfest this weekend. Stop by and check out his work if you’re in the area. You can also see his stuff online.

Get me to the bridge

Wooden bridge near the Stone Arch Bridge, Minneapolis. Long exposure taken around 5 in the a.m.

Yo Chubby!

As in Yo Chubby Gringo Tamales Cart, downtown Wausau, WI.

Despicable art in progress

So for twenty bills you get set up with a section of sidewalk, a box of 48 pastels, and assorted other art supplies, and then you can go crazy. There were some really talented folks flashing their artistic skillz. Chalkfest 2013, Wausau, WI.

Shady art in progress

Another one from Chalkfest.

Art in progress

Chalkfest, Wausau, WI.

Cloud Cult

Como Ave., St. Paul

Wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin'

Canterbury Park, Shakopee.

Sail into sunset

Chalk this one up in the "almost" category. If I could do it over, the sailboat would be fully in the shot. But the floating deck I was on while taking the picture was bobbing around more than I expected. I fired off about three shots before the people in the boat had pushed off from the dock and were out of the frame; this is the best of those.
Lake Calhoun, MN.

Cacophony

Hamm's Brewery, St. Paul

There's a light (white light)

Hamm's Brewery, St. Paul

Low flow

Hamm’s Brewery, St. Paul.

No one expects a duck invasion

Lake Calhoun, Minneapolis

Holding it together...barely

St. Paul, MN

Post-4th patriotism

Still rocking the red, white, and blue. Lake Calhoun, Minneapolis.

Evening at Lake Calhoun

Sun going down on a stellar summer day.

retnec kramdnaL

Landmark Center and Hamm Building reflections.
Downtown St. Paul, MN.

The Balanced Approach

I asked him if I could get a picture of him on what I think was a slackline; he said "I've only had it for three days...I'm not very good yet." Then he asked if I wanted to give it a try. I have enough trouble walking on the ground. And he was good enough to let me get this shot.

Horses

"There are horses here. I can sense it."
Canterbury Park, Shakopee, MN.

That morning sparkle

Stone Arch Bridge, Minneapolis, in the wee hours of the morning.

RIOT

EXPERIMENTAL CENTAUR ACCIDENTALLY RELEASED INTO THE WILD; PANDEMONIUM ENSUES.
Canterbury Park Horse Racing Track, Shakopee, MN.

About a girl

Hannah. Visual artist, musician.
"What inspired you to start playing guitar?"
"My dad used to sing 'Edelweiss' when I was young. I picked up a guitar when I was eleven and I've been playing ever since."
She's playing tonight at the Kitty Kat Klub in Dinkytown, so if you're in the area, stop in and support her.