One of My Reasons for Thanksgiving This Year

This collage was from my 60 mile bike ride for my 60th birthday this past summer. There is much to be grateful for in 6 decades!
Date: 8/4/08

(PS- There will be no post on Friday. See you again next week.)

A Take-Off

One of the many Canada geese taking off from the lake behind our apartments.
Date: 11/2/08

Music in Madrid

Four pictures showing a variety of street music in Madrid, Spain on a beautiful spring day.
Date: April 14, 2002

A Birthday Remembered

Nov. 19 was my Dad's birthday 103 years ago. Here he is with my brother (left) and me, at Niagara Falls in 1957. Yes, I have a camera in my hand at just about age 9.
Date: 1957 (scanned from slide)

Fall Sunset

Even with the leaves gone from the trees, the branches themselves stand out against a fall sunset.
Date: 11/2/08

Mixing Mums and Grasses

This planter near the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, combined colors and textures in a rich and eye-catching manner.
Date: 10/19/08

More Fall Grasses

I don't know what it is about grasses in the fall that attracts my attention to take pictures. Whatever it is, I like it.
Date: 10/19/08

Honoring the Veterans

Tomorrow is Veterans' Day. Yesterday at the Packer-Vikings Game at the Metrodome in Minneapolis they honored a group of Minnesotans returning home.
Date: 11/9/08

Summer Leftover

The seeds are all that is left in November.
Date: 10/19/08

Colors and Contrasts

The bright fall color against the dark brick of the church in downtown Rochester, MN, make an interesting contrast and compliment.
Date: 10/19/08

Flag and Leaves

Tomorrow is Election Day, 2008. It may be the greatest act of patriotism we have available to all of us. This flag along the Cannon Valley Trail in eastern Minnesota is our reminder of who we are and the great responsibility we have to vote.
Date: 10/11/08