From the Porch Swing to the City Streets. Dubuque, Iowa

Out on Highway 61. Viroqua, Wisconsin

On Interior wall detail featuring rustic wood paneling, a glowing lamp, animal skulls, framed western photographs, and a mounted fish under warm orange and magenta lighting. Haunted River Island. Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin

Thoughts from a River Confluence. Wyalusing State Park, Wisconsin

There's Nowhere Else to Go Now. Newburg Corners, Wisconsin

Backrooms isn’t scary to Minneapolis folks we just live like this

Looking Down Main Street towards Minnesota Bluffs. Trempealeau, Wisconsin

Morning in the Millwork District. Dubuque, Iowa

Bridges over the Mississippi. Dubuque, Iowa

See Paul's Big Game Trophies. Dubuque, Iowa

From the Heights of Grandad Bluff. La Crosse, Wisconsin

Scenes from the Agrarian Driftless. Bloomingdale, Wisconsin

feels very Stålenhag, for whatever reason

The Constant Search for Reception. Avalanche, Wisconsin

The Grotto of the Holy Ghost Parish. Dickeyville, Wisconsin

Save Time with the Fenelon Place Elevator. Dubuque, Iowa

Steeples on a Sunday Morning. Dubuque, Iowa

Morning in Amish Country. Cashton, Wisconsin

Taking a trip down the big river, looking for cool shit, things to eat, places to grab a beer, bluffs to hike, photos to take etc. you name it between La Crosse, Wisconsin and Dubuque, Iowa.

Scenes on Payne Avenue. Saint Paul, Minnesota

Windows of the California Building. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Steampunk Paradise. Minneapolis, MinnesotaA small crowd gathers around the T-Rex cart of the Southside Battle Train.

Remnants of the Hamm's Brewery. Saint Paul, Minnesota

To my fellow image uploaders here: does Bluesky give you as much hell as it gives me? I have been losing interest in posting here because trying to post images is so time intensive. Random images won't upload. Alt text doesn't work. The post button doesn't post. Etc. Is it just me?

The Midwest, in this sense, is not simply a story of what has been lost, but of what it takes to hold onto a place when the systems and shared identities that created it no longer exist.

The Pastures are Green Again. Holdingford, Minnesota

Silence Falls on the Central Hillside. Duluth, Minnesota

"Forty scenes of grain elevators, Main Streets, railroad tracks, and towering beers." Terrific photo storytelling by Jordan van der Hagen and @racketmn.com. racketmn.com/exploring-mi...

Always love @thejvandy.bsky.social's photography! racketmn.com/exploring-mi...

I'd recognize La Crosse anywhere

I've been thinking a lot about how the Midwest is a landscape of inheritance. This idea is explored in a few paragraphs and forty scenes of grain elevators, Main Streets, railroad tracks, and towering beers. Feeling honored to have these published by @racketmn.com.

In and Around Downtown. Superior, Wisconsin

Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em. Knife River, Minnesota

Morning on Sixth Avenue East. Duluth, Minnesota

On Loyalty and Cotton Candy. Duluth, Minnesota

We talk a lot about what freeways destroyed. Not enough about what they bypassed. The hundreds of main streets that lost their reason to exist. Grand Avenue in West Duluth is one of them.

Bypassed Facades of Spirit Valley. Duluth, Minnesota

From Just Above Superior Street. Duluth, Minnesota

Nightfall in Canal Park. Duluth, Minnesota

I Just Wanna Be Your Tugboat Captain. Two Harbors, Minnesota

Comfy in Nautica. Superior, Wisconsin

Places Out West. Duluth, Minnesota

Dirty Dreary Dreamy Duluth. Duluth, Minnesota

Good Morning to Minoru Yamasaki. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Nighttime at The Aster Cafe. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Following the Old Soo Line. West Central Minnesota

Life on the Funny Farm. Saint Martin, Minnesota

It’s Warmer Now. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Butcher’s Crossing. Belgrade, Minnesota

Warm Winds on the Mississippi River. Minneapolis, Minnesota