Posted Urban Bike, City of Lakes. My explorations of every lake in Minneapolis.
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Urban Bike: Yard Art in a Civil Society
I see things from my bicycle I don’t see from a bus or car. It might be an old guy on his bicycle, stovepipe hat, bushy beard, archaic black clothes, a character from a Dickens novel. Or a bearded guy cycling the Midtown Greenway in a girlie dress. They seek attention, or inhabit an alternate… Continue reading Urban Bike: Yard Art in a Civil Society
Yard Art in a Civil Society
Posted Urban Bike: Yard Art in a Civil Society.
In Search of Yard Art
Cycled in search of yard art. Found these giraffes in “Nordeast” Minneapolis.
Rust
Walked my bicycle through a rusty landscape. Rusty rails, rusty power poles, rusty vegetation.
Urban Bike: Car-Free Minneapolis Bridges
Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge. Below me sixteen lanes of traffic roar. I’m standing on the Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge, one of many Minneapolis bridges I cannot cross in a car. The bridge takes me between two parks: Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and Loring Park. Loring Park. In Loring Park, the zig-zag approach to this old bridge tells… Continue reading Urban Bike: Car-Free Minneapolis Bridges
Crossing Car-Free Bridges
Crossed 12 bridges I cannot cross by car.
Navigating an Air France Pilot
I navigated for an Air France pilot and his friend: easier to cycle with them to Lake Calhoun than give directions.
Train Tracks
Nordeast Minneapolis: Cycled above train tracks with a friend.
Tailraces
Cycled beside the Mississippi past early Minneapolis. Tailraces from flour mills used to drain into this canal.