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.

Categorized as Cycle

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.

Categorized as Plan

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.

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Empty Table

Lunch with a friend who is moving to Atlanta. I’ll miss her, and our regular free-flowing conversations over decades.

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Yellow Streetcars

Stopped to peek inside the Excelsior Streetcar Line shed on our cycle ride back from Victoria to Hopkins.

Bike Tuneup

Picked up my bike from a tune-up at Midtown Bike Center.

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Glass Houses and Buried Museums

The Farnsworth House A Glass House in Illinois Completed in 1951, the Farnsworth House, near Plano, Illinois, is widely regarded as one of the major architectural achievements of the twentieth century. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe took his belief that “less is more” almost to the limit by designing a steel-framed, glass-walled box. The box floats…… Continue reading Glass Houses and Buried Museums