Our Lady of Victory

This statue is in front of the chapel on St. Kate's college campus.  Different from some of the newer, more modern sculptures, it blends in nicely because of its simplicity.

Peavey Fountain

As a typical St. Paulite, I don't often venture to Mineapolis, but when I do, I make some delightful discoveries. Who would guess that there is a momument dedicated to military horses?

Monster-Loch Ness? ABC WEDNESDAY "M"

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ABC WEDNESDAY-M-The Dancers' Musicians

These are the musicians that accompanied the dancers from Sweden that I posted here and here.

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Playing Around

This is the result when a child plays around with my iMac!  Cute, isn't she?

My environment!

 I would have a very hard time living anywhere permanently which is not close to water.  I love the Mississippi and the Great Lakes. It's both primal and part of my genetic code!

Camera Critters- Hitching a Ride

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The horse drawn wagons have been very popular at the Farmers' Market this past summer.  Interesting that most of the riders are adults, rather than children!

Added later: Originally I had posted these photos on October 1, forgetting  about Theme Day, but I soon switched the post to today.  Sorry if you already saw this last week when it was briefly posted.  But the horses certainly are worth viewing again...beautiful animals!

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More Swedish Dancers

A few more of the 30 Swedish dancers that performed  in Stockholm, Wi last Saturday night.

Swedish Dancers

On our sunny Saturday road trip down the Mississippi we discovered these dancers in Stockholm, WI. The Nivren Folkdansgille are from Sundsvall, Sweden and the  30 musicians and dancers were scheduled to perform Swedish folkdances and sing, as well as discuss their costumes. They even were going to teach some of the dances! At the outdoor square they gave us a sample of what was in store that evening.  I wanted to join them at their free potluck performance but we were on our way back to St. Paul.  I felt a bit cheated that we missed it.  

ABC Wednesday-L-: Louise Erdrich's Birchbark Bookstore

Susan is the manager of the Birchbark Bookstore, which is owned by writer Louise Erdrich (pronounced: errd-rick). Close to Lake Calhoun,  it is nestled in a neighborhood next door to a cafe. Very convenient for book and coffee lovers. If you are a Twin Cities resident, take yourself over there to meet Susan who is an animated booklover who wants to help customers make connections to books they might love. If you're lucky, Louise might be there. The necklace Susan is wearing and which I admired comes from Santo Domingo Pueblo midway between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM. Another "small world" experience since I just attended the Pueblo's Annual Arts and Craft Fair in September. The earrings I bought at that very same Pueblo are not quite as spectacular as Susan's necklace. Alas!  But I walked out of the bookstore with books!  To see more ABC Wednesday photographs, go here!

Lovely to Look At...ABC WEDNESDAY "L"

Marge Lindemann from Cumberland, WI taught emotionally disturbed teen-agers for 25 years but had no time to do art. After she retired she has been making originally designed garments, scarves and wall pieces from hand painted and dyed silk for the past 9 years. I met her in an art store in Stockholm, Wi where she was demonstrating her art-in-progress on a silk scarf with an autumn leaf motif. She has outlets for her work in several Wisconsin towns, including Algoma, a Lake Michigan hamlet in Kewaunee County which happened also to be the small town where I was born. Small world! 


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Seamus Heaney

On Sunday afternoon, October 2, I was more than delighted to hear my favorite poet, Irishman Seamus Heaney, read to a full auditorium at St. Benedict's College in St. Joseph, MN. I had heard him before at the original Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis in 1996 and knew that it was an event not to be missed. Currently the new Guthrie Theatre is performing The Burial at Thebes, Heaney's poetic adaptation of Antigone. Internationally known and honored with multiple awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature,  Heaney is probably the most important living poet in the world.

Mystery Object identified!

While waiting on the third floor of St. Joseph's hospital in downtown St. Paul, I leaned over the open balcony and saw the information desk on the first floor and a visitor ascending the staircase to the second floor. Eureka!  I found the mystery object I posted yesterday.  Because of the distance from the stairs to the camera, you really couldn't see the risers on each step, David was the first to think they could be stairs but clever Jacob figured it out for sure.

OOPS! Almost forgot about THEME DAY-MYSTERY OBJECT!

This is really too easy!  Tomorrow I'll show you the object in its original location!  Have some fun and go over to the other blogs with mystery objects. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants.

Signs of Fall

Good Question!

He leads the way.

ABC WEDNESDAY -K- A Kid, a Mom, and a Horse

I wonder who is more interested in the horse..Mom or the Kid?

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Trimming Trees

An entrepreneur!

This young balloon woman offered some amusing advice.

A Pied Piper

There are always musicians and music at the St. Paul Farmers' Market.  Yesterday was the first time  I saw a musician involve the children in a square dance to the delight of onlookers.  He looked like he and the kiddies and the children were enjoying themselves!!