The Piano Man

 Unusual Art
Unique Sculpture at the Fair
The Piano Man

Minnesota Worker

Capable Painter

Paints and Repairs Our White House

Professional Job

Grand Old Gray House-ABC WEDNESDAY "G"

 Excellent Gray House

Graces an Historic Street

Summit Avenue

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Governor's Grand Executive Mansion-ABC WEDNESDAY "G"

Governor's Mansion

Home on Summit Avenue

Beautiful Landscape

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Monday Reading #2: The Barista

Taking a Short Break

Hard to Ignore Camera

Sandy,  the Barista

Inspired by "Reading the Paper" by Emma Jones (Red Bubble Posters)

Sunday Drive

For a Sunday Drive

 Roadster is a Perfect Car

Hop in for a Ride

BREAKING NEWS...BREAKING NEWS...BREAKING NEWS...BREAKING NEWS

R.I.P.   Neil Armstrong

Family statement regarding the death of Neil Armstrong:  For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request. Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink.

Better Than the Internet!

The Red Balloon's Bears

Children's Mecca for Good Books

Come Meet An Author!

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Refreshing Marketeers

The Three Marketeers

Giving Away Free Samples

Refreshers--So Good!

Classy Classic Chassis

Oh, Be Still My Heart

Imagine a Ride in This

Oh, Heavenly Bliss!

I learned how to drive on a '62 black Corvette.  And then there were children!

Flowers and Fences-ABC WEDNESDAY-"F"

Flowers and Fences

The Greatest Combination

Spring Lilacs Smell Best!

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Red Enough?-ABC WEDNESDAY "F"-Fine Red Classic Cars

First Annual Rally

Enjoyed Attending Event

Fine Red Classic Cars

"Young Girl Reading"

A Young Girl Reading

Using Imagination

A World of Her Own

Inspired by a post by another Minnesota blogger, Extended Library Jewel, who reviewed a book that included art involving women reading, I decided to try to use a version of that as a Monday theme for my own blog, but rather than confine it to females reading, I shall include men and boys, also.  The debut portrait is of my granddaughter, Olivia, paired with a portrait by Jean-Honoré Fragonard entitled "A Young Girl Reading"--neither of whom are yet women but reading sends them on the right path.

Olivia, holding Columbia, is reading The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse

A Green Thumb

Hard Working Gardener

Planted All the Shrubs Herself

 Talented Neighbor

Franklin and Bogey

Doing What They Love Best

A Daily Neighborhood Walk

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Come One! Come All!

The Pied Piper's Truck

A Flavor for Everyone

A Transaction Made

Fitness for Life

Victim? Volunteer?

James hustles up Ramsey Hill

Staying fit for Life

Last Thursday (August 9) I introduced you to Van Evans who started a neighborhood fitness progam on the corner of Summit Avenue and the top of Ramsey Hill.  James posed for me so that I could show you some of the action that takes place there on most Saturday mornings from 8:30-10:30 am.  James is a native St. Paulite who graduated from  Highland Senior High and then attended the University of Minnesota.

Eternal Rest

Rest in Peace, Julie

A Life Snuffed Out Much Too Soon

Rest in Peace Lost Niece

April 30, 1970
July 29, 2012

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)

i fear

no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
e.e. cummings

Monday Mural

Mississippi Queen
A true stern paddlewheeler
Towed and sold for scrap!

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Short Footbridge

Very short footbridge

No water flows under it

Drought leaves it barren

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Sweet Friendsip

Horses Together

Both Sublimely Happy

Sweet Equine Friendship

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Primary Voting

Voting is a Right

Voting is a Privilege

Primary Voting

A Passion for Fitness!

Staying Fit is Good!

Van offers Community

Fitness Program

Van Evans, a native St. Paulite, is interested in both fitness and community involvement.  As a result he has begun a community program that meets on the corner of Summit Avenue and the top of Ramsey Hill every Saturday from 8:30-10:30 am. A lawn sign indicates that he's available to work with passersby and neighborhood people on physical workouts.  A 1986 high school graduate of St. Paul Academy and the University of Minnesota, he is now employed in the field of sports medicine.  If you want to lift weights or run up the "killer" Ramsey Hill, come out to meet Van next Saturday!

ABC WEDNESDAY-"D"-DARLIN' DOM

 2012

Helps His Grandparents--

Darlin' Dom is Our Main Man

Number One Grandson

1996

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ABC WEDNESDAY "D"-Dedication & Taphophile Tragics

A Dedication

With heartfelt message of Love

Tears and Memories

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Titletown

This is Titletown 
 Packers vs Vikings game!
Wanna bet who'll win?

Amber Ale

Restaurant and Bar

New to the Neighborhood

Should I Try the Ale?

We'll set the scene.

1989. Belgium. Boy on bike. (Ok, make that a young man of 32).

As our aspiring young homebrewer rides his mountain bike with "fat tires" through European villages famous for beer, New Belgium Brewing Company was but a glimmer in his eye. Or basement. For Jeff Lebesch would return to Fort Collins with a handful of ingredients and an imagination full of recipes.

And then there was beer.

Jeff's first two basement-brewed creations? A brown dubbel with earthy undertones named Abbey and a remarkably well-balanced amber he named Fat Tire. To say the rest was history would be to overlook his wife's involvement. Kim Jordan was New Belgium's first bottler, sales rep, distributor, marketer and financial planner.

And now, she's our CEO.

Electrical engineer meets social worker; ideals flourish

The other side of the New Belgium story isn't as romantic as bicycling through Europe, but it gives testament to our dedication and hard work.  And it goes like this: Jeff, an electrical engineer by day and tinkerer by nature, builds a homebrewing kit in his basement out of repurposed dairy equipment. His Belgian inspired brews garnered
enough praise from friends and neighbors that Jeff and Kim take their basement brewery commercial in 1991.


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Adoptable Greyhounds-Camera Critters

Two Beauties to Love

Rescue Dogs Wanting a Home

Please Won't You Adopt?

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Tye-Dye Artist

A gifted artist

Assisted ably by spouse

Great team together

Patti is the tye-dye artist I met at the St. Paul Highland Art Fair, who is making the tye-dye skirt that I'll take to Cuba.  Helping her in the booth is her husband. Oh, to be so talented!

Clothes for Cuba-ABC WEDNESDAY Bonus Photo

"Cute" clothes for Cuba

 Practical   Easy to Pack

Ordered Black and White

Yes, I'm going to Cuba for Eight Days!

Leaving on October 13...Can't wait!!

Found these garments at the St. Paul Highland Art Fair, but they didn't have my size.  The artist is willing to make the skirt for me because it'll be easy to roll up in my suitcase and fun to wear.  I'll probably give it away when I leave.  We're bringing all kinds of humanitarian items (over-the-counter medicines, aspirin, children's
vitamins, toothbrushes and toothpaste samples my dentist will provide, sample shampoo and conditioner, and best of all...school supplies and books for children).  I am an expert at getting donations from commercial establishments!

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By Golly Miss Molly!

Golly Miss Molly

Your Bugmobile Sports Numbers !
-Aloha Flowers-

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