📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2026) Cass Gilbert Still Life #architecture #history Before the Supreme Court, Cass Gilbert designed the Shingle-style Virginia St. Church (1886). The crescent moon & chimney steam are emblematic of his early focus on natural textures and environmental harmony.

2 is a beautiful number

📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2026) Faded Blooms and Living Fears My spouse ran across this 1971 Ferlinghetti broadside she'd saved for posterity. There’s a haunting weight to seeing it. The years pass, but the warnings stay the same. #PoetrySky #LawrenceFerlinghetti #History #Ephemera

📱 | San Francisco (2016) #BlueSkyArtShow #Wood

📱 | Northern Minnesota (2025) #BlueSkyArtShow #Wood

📱 | Northern Minnesota (2025) #BlueSkyArtShow #Wood

I just watched a skater land a perfect Triple Salchow, and honestly? That’s my cue to go to bed. I need to quit while I’m ahead before I hear Dick Button’s voice in my head shouting, 'Oh, he’s over-rotated! No flow on the landing! Look at that transition—absolutely pedestrian!

Hand-printed poster from an ally in The Netherlands #Printmaking

📱 | Minneapolis, Minnesota (2017) Lakeside bar stools at Lake Nokomis Park #cityscape #LEtoileDuNord

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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2026) Midday view of the Mississippi River valley from Summit Overlook #cityscape #LEtoileDuNord

📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2026) The 401. I love random address numbers. #UrbanGaze #Photography #LEtoileDuNord

📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2019) Bus Painting on Ford Parkway #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFForFramed

📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025) Minnesota State Capitol building seen through a multi-paned window at the Minnesota History Center. #LEtoileDuNord #UrbanGaze #photography

📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2026) #History #LEtoileDuNord

A reckless high-speed chase by ICE ended in a multi-vehicle crash at Selby & Western today, hospitalizing one. Mayor @kaohlyforstp.bsky.social condemned ICE for endangering the public. Our streets shouldn't be training ground for Mr. Trump's knuckleheads to subvert the mid-term elections. #History

📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2026) A school bus is a mask of normalcy over the occupation of a Federal government at war with pro-democracy people. Resistance isn't always loud; sometimes it’s just getting a few of our kids safely to school. Everyone is vulnerable. ❄️ #Minnesota #History #LEtoileDuNord

📱 | Saint Paul, Minnesota (2025) L'Étoile du Nord #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed

📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2026) Palpable tension of a city under siege. The vigilante surveillance of a lawless federal occupation have turned quiet streets into a landscape of fear where residents are shaken to their core. #Minnesota #History #LEtoileDuNord

📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025) From I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World) Steely Dan ‧ 1993 … Just a machine to make big decisions Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision We'll be clean when their work is done We'll be eternally free, yes, and eternally young #AlphabetChallenge #AlphabetTechPhoto

📱 | Saint Paul, Minnesota (2024) Stories are framed by countless cultural echoes. Hear them. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed

📱 | Minneapolis, Minnesota (2016) Borders as curators. Framing nothing makes it something. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed

📱 | Saint Paul, Minnesota (2026) A Minnesotan in an Icelandic wool sweater strides forward to convene our caucus with humble, no-nonsense leadership chops. This is what neighborhood-led political clout looks like. Volunteer-powered, people-friendly, and committed to change. #WeThePeople

📱 | Saint Paul, MN (2026) Interior light #photography #meditation

📱 | Saint Paul, MN (2026) A window frames a #cityscape like a canvas of Prussian blue pre-dawn skies over warm ochre waking lights imbued with a whiff of linseed oil. #photography #meditation

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📱 | Northern Minnesota (2022) #BlueskyArtShow #Sunlight

📱 | Saint Paul, MN (2026) Buses are a democratic floorboard. No algorithms or paywalls, rather temporal trajectories over public arteries. The cast of characters reminds me I'm not the only person living here. A bus is the city’s nervous system in real-time. #MetroTransit #photography

📱 | Saint Paul, MN (2026) This photo calls to mind George Saunders’ brilliant novel Vigil and the line, "He sat by the window as if the glass were a map of a country he no longer had the right to visit." We are the tether to our own ghosts, ready to rise the moment we release the line. #BookSky

📱 | Saint Paul, Minnesota (2024) #FireHydrantFriday

📱 | Saint Paul, Minnesota (2026) Moon set #cityscape #photography

Top tier name: Pretzel Pezzullo

Anyone else enjoy reading George Saunders? Here's my Goodreads review of his January 2026 novel, Vigil. www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #books #fiction #bookreview

The ICE occupation of Minnesota has been an assault on our state's core humanity. It's stifled many small businesses that rely on peace and foot traffic over Federally-sponsored retribution. There is so much to love about Minnesota. Don’t forget L'Étoile du Nord when we emerge from this dark cloud.

📱 | Saint Paul, Minnesota (2026) Nothing. (But Net)

📱 | Edina, Minnesota (2026) No. 2 is a very pragmatic construct. It's a kind of collaborative hallucination where interior designer, lab tech, and patient accept without question that this particular parcel of air and drywall some 6 stories up in the sky is...well...No. 2! #WindowsOnWednesday

"Color is like a keyboard; the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul." — Arthur Wesley Dow

📱 | Saint Paul, Minnesota (2026) Caucus Night #somelines #photography

"Composition, the putting together of lines, masses and colors to make a harmony." —Arthur Wesley Dow

📱 | Saint Paul, Minnesota (2025) I find that benign neglect is a curatorial aesthetic, rewarding the willing patron with a resplendent diorama of benevolent apathy. #FoundArt #photography

📱 | Saint Paul, Minnesota (2026) Urban light #streetscape #photography

📱 | Afton, Minnesota (2018) The Winter Olympics have Bobsleds, but here is a To-Bob-gan. Bobsleds are sleek and built for speed; the To-Bob-gan is built for comfort, piloted by Bob, and fueled by an exquisitely braided chocolate Bob-ka. #WeekEforEponymous #AlphabetChallenge

📱 | Saint Paul, Minnesota (2026) Domestic sky #photography

This is who runs this account

📱 | NE Minneapolis, Minnesota (2026) Between Two Rooms #Photography #LiminalSpace #AlphabetChallenge #BonusDiptych #WeekDforDramatic

A city of lights pushes back against the darkness. Historians will recall this winter as a point of inflection, a reckoning, and a testament to a resilience as boundless as our humanity. Through the eye of a polar vortex, light has led the way.

Note to self. Do it like this.

📱 | Boulder, Colorado (2024) I met a man from Mars He picked up all my guitars And played me traveling songs And when we got on ship He brought out something for the trip And said, "It's old but it's good" Ride My Llama - Crazy Horse and Neil Young ‧ 1979

📱 | Northern Minnesota (2023) Paddling into our unwritten future. #BlueSkyArtShow #Clouds

I'll be lovingly poured into my eternal dirt nap before I can top this image.