Perfecting My Hobby

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In her "Tip of the Day" she directed me to a PCWorld article showing how to do this trick with a digital photo. Nifty, huh?

We spent Sunday, October 7th watching the 26th annual Twin Cities Marathon. What a scorcher! It was almost 80 degrees at the start with very high humidity. In spite of that, both Kirk and Anne did a great job. Kirk finished 54th overall in a group of nearly 8,000 runners, third in his age group division. (The winner of the race was in his division). His time: 2:50:02. Anne finished 374th overall and 12th out of 485 in her division. Her time: 3:31:44. I've included a picture of the finish area to show what a crush of people participate in this event.

Infrequent Visitor

Here is a bird that we have never seen while living in Minnesota. (Since 1974). Although we have seen many Nuthatches, this is a Red Breasted Nuthatch which, according to my book would usually hang out further north. Just shows that it's always worth looking. You may see something new.

A Trip to Bone Lake

We traveled to Bone Lake in western Wisconsin this weekend to visit our friends Jim and Jeanne. When we visited Chateau St Croix to do a little wine tasting we happened upon the owners' hobby: polo-crosse, a combination of polo and lacrosse. Unfortunately we were only able to witness a training session but it was still interesting and a verification that we don't just drink wine.....
The last picture pretty much captures some of the allure of the "up north" lake experience.

Minnesota Symbols

We had the opportunity to travel to Bemidji last week for a stay in a housekeeping cabin at Finn n Feather resort. It was a trip down memory lane as our little family used to vacation there every summer back in the 70's and 80's. These pictures were taken at Bemidji State Park just north of down on the "Bog Walk". We had never before seen the Minnesota state flower (Showy Lady Slipper) in the wild. There were probably fifty plants or so as well as numerous other wild flowers. The second one is a pitcher plant which forms a little bowel, secrets liquid into it, and entices little critters like ants into it for a nice dinner. The loon needs no explanation although if you click for a closer look it shows the green band on its neck quite nicely. The last picture is of Jack, Cindy, Jean, and I on the Bog Walk. They were able to get away for a few days to join us fishing and enjoying the great north woods.

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Sign Abuse

For my last post before returning to Minnesota I thought it appropriate to show a couple of rules violators. Here is a poor little crab who found out what happens when rules are violated. Jean is shown cleaning up after him. As for the big blue fellow I guess he can't read the sign or just doesn't care.