Nicollet Mall
I spotted this Dahl Violin Shop sign on the back wall of an old building down the alley across from the Hilton Minneapolis (in the background). When I walked back to get this photo, a policeman was checking doors in the other buildings. He stared at me and the chair, but said nothing.
South 10th Street
On my walk back to my hotel from the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, I crossed the Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge, strolled through Loring Park and cut through the Loring Greenway.
I had a couple hours between booth set up and dinner on Thursday afternoon to see everything there was to see in Minneapolis. I wandered about a mile to the Minnesota Sculpture Garden.
The center attraction of the garden is Spoonbridge with Cherry.
Without Words
Two-Way Mirror Punched Steel Hedge Labyrinth
Front of Snowwoman
Walking Man
Ordovician Pore
Cowles Conservatory was inside the garden.
Standing Glass Fish
I traveled to Minneapolis for a conference. I drove up by myself in a rented Dodge Avenger. I stopped on the way in Osseo, Wisconsin at the Norske Nook restaurant for lunch and pie.
I ordered a bacon cheeseburger, which was mighty tasty. I also ordered a plate of lefse because I’d never had it and wasn’t sure what it was. Now I know. It’s like a really thin, tasteless pancake. I have no idea if I was supposed to butter it or put jam on it or what. I just ate it and was unimpressed.
Or course we ordered pie. I had blackberry cream cheese. It was very good, although the filling was a little weird. It had the texture of Jello and didn’t add much to the taste but it did make the pie a lot thicker.
I happened upon this frog as I was walking through a residential area at least half a mile from the nearest water. It was in the street, and made several long, panicky leaps to get away from me. It finally landed in the grass in someone’s yard where it apparently thought it was invisible. It allowed me to kneel down and take this picture with my iPhone about a half inch from its nose.
