Replaced 2 shirts for upcoming trip. I’m hard on shirts: one on, one spare, nightly wash, dry by twisting in a towel.
Category: Living
Japanese Garden
Cycled, via Eden Prairie, to Normandale College’s Japanese Garden in Bloomington. Three Japanese gardens in one week!
Intermission Reflections
Intermission reflections, Guthrie Theater: Mill City Museum, Mississippi, Stone Arch Bridge.
New Pedals
Pedal seized up, replaced both pedals. If I replace any more parts I won’t be able to claim my bike is 30-years-old.
Working in a Former Nursing Home
Worked today in a former nursing home. It certainly retains many of the elements of its original use.
Nagasaki/Saint Paul
Nagasaki aesthetics, Como Park, St. Paul, MN. Minneapolis and St. Paul are twins; Nagasaki and St. Paul are sisters. In March 2014, I got to meet St. Paul’s sister. I decided not to stay at the Hotel Saint Paul Nagasaki, its name designed to attract my compatriots. I had not come all this way to…… Continue reading Nagasaki/Saint Paul
Planning for Winter
Beautiful sunny day. Spent half the day inside, planning flights, hotels, cars and trains in warm places this winter.
Fat on a Stick
Easy to cycle past this at Uptown Art Fair knowing I’d be at #victory44 for dinner where they care about ingredients.
Empty Table
Lunch with a friend who is moving to Atlanta. I’ll miss her, and our regular free-flowing conversations over decades.
Yellow Streetcars
Stopped to peek inside the Excelsior Streetcar Line shed on our cycle ride back from Victoria to Hopkins.