On the way home from work I decided to take a little different route from my usual, taking me past a high point in St. Anthony from which you have a nice view of the western sky. Sun setting I pulled off into a small parking area with only minutes to spare before the sun would disappear. Another photog apparently had the same idea, except he was shooting a promotional video of the sunset for a travel agency.

Or more appropriately Minnehaha Trickle? For the time being anyway. Not to long ago kids were splashing around in the pool formed by a wide bend in the creek just a bit upstream from this spot, but at the end of the season the creek starts drying up. In a couple or three months the trickle going over the falls will freeze into a display of massive icicles, a popular view during the winter months.

Went up to Duluth to get some shots of the tall ships visiting for the Maritime festival. As I suspected the tall ships were surrounded by a collection of of boats making it impossible to get any clean shots. This picture is the Pride of Baltimore II, coming in to dock. It has working cannons, which were fired (blanks of course) a few times on its way into and in the harbor.

I suppose if your life consisted of eating, trying not to be eaten, and you know that other thing, this is the look you’d have on your face if you saw some giant monster with single eye as large as your body staring at you from a few feet away. BTW, do frogs have teeth?

The latest addition to our family, Bear, after enjoying a doggy ice cream treat on a hot day. He was found in a barn in Iowa, apparently having been abused. Through a chain of transfers he’s ended up with us. Being a dog (with corresponding dog brain) he’ll never realize just how lucky he is. We’ve been through a few dogs, always with the same outcome, the day you have to put them down. He’ll have a happy life up to that moment. But we won’t think about that ending for a decade or so. Hopefully he’ll soon stop trying to ‘escape’.