My friend and I stopped to check out the newly sharpened Loti Pencil, which is basically a 180-year-old bur oak stump in the front yard of a Lake of the Isles home. It had just gotten its yearly “shave” with a giant pencil sharpener a few days prior. A passer-by asked if we’d seen “the giraffe.” We hadn’t, so we cycled a few blocks, and there it was!
