This Coopers Hawk was enjoying a pigeon in our courtyard at 27th and Nicollet. A Happy Meal if ever.
photo: Dana McDill
Monday, February 28, 2011
Coopers Hawk & Pigeon
This Coopers Hawk was enjoying a pigeon in our courtyard at 27th and Nicollet. A Happy Meal if ever.
photo: Dana McDill
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Hijab Headset
The Law of Unintentional Consequences at work:
the hijab (headscarf) and the iPhone appear to be made for each other.
the hijab (headscarf) and the iPhone appear to be made for each other.
On the no. 5 bus, Chicago Avenue S.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Bridget and the Cheese
Bridget in the deli at Lake Wine Spirits (404 W. Lake Street) with a Fromage de meaux,
which is apparently French for "Big white circular cheese".
which is apparently French for "Big white circular cheese".
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Anonymous Neighbors
I used to live right next to this anonymous neighbor in another era. Her dog is very friendly, and so is she. I was so excited to see her that I turned around and parked my borrowed car when I realized she was my subject for the day.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Your Thoughts Take Shape Through Snow
This morning, the window of Bob's Java Hut puts me in mind of the opening lines of Louis MacNeice's poem "Snow":
The room was suddenly rich and the great bay
-window was
Spawning snow and pink roses against it
Soundlessly collateral and incompatible:
World is suddener than we fancy it.
Photo: Francesca DiPiazza
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
19. Dog Days of Whittier
Dog Days of Whittier
Washburn Fair Oaks Park
guest photographer: Jen Wendland
Friday, February 18, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
17. Your Staff
We, the original founders of this blog, met at Bob's Java Hut (Lyndale & 27th) to order "free" business cards for this project, which ended up costing us $11.44.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
16. Whittier Clinic
Guest photographer: Michael Wright
"I do love taking photos of things against a blue sky."
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
15. Fixing the case where the pastries will be...
The owner of the Lyndale Grocery and Deli makes sure the case is stable. My falafel sandwich lunch was perfect, and Thabat's four year old son showed me his ipad game!
Photo: Esther Perry
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Saturday, February 12, 2011
12. One Writer, Two Bookstores
I love this project: it gives me permission to talk to strangers. They tend to seem ordinary until they start to talk.
Haddayr Copley-Woods, below, is a writer of fantasy and magic realism. Her stories, she said, are about people who seem ordinary until something happens. Say, they start to fly. [link to her website]
Copley-Woods lives in Powderhorn but crossed into Phillips to go to Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction (front half of store)/ Uncle Edgar's Mystery (back half) Bookstores,
2864 Chicago Avenue South. [link to Hugo & Edgar's]
(Can you spot Mr. Spock?)
Photo: F. Davis DiPiazza
Friday, February 11, 2011
11. Mink Coat
"I'm very dramatic. People have compared me to Greta Garbo."
--Cheryl Holmgren, Midtown Global Market, Lake St. & Chicago Ave.
photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
9. JumpStart
Whittier International Elementary School, offering the International Baccalaureate curriculum, has an early morning JumpStart where this 2nd grader is going. Although she lives outside the busing area her parents are so pleased with Whittier that they are happy to bring her and pick her up every day.
Guest photographer: Mike Wright
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
8. "Pham's Deli Snowflake"
Minneapolis Weather, 12:42 p.m.: 2ºF (-16ºC), feels like -16ºF (-26ºC)
Midtown Global Market, Lake St. & Chicago Ave. (Phillips)
Guest photographer: Lucinda Naylor
Monday, February 7, 2011
6. Two Tours
Fern and Richard Shumpert
Sullivan's Supervalu, 30 West Lake Street (Whittier)
Mr. Shumpert served in two tours of duty as a U.S. Marine in Vietnam.
photo: Francesca DiPiazza
Sullivan's Supervalu, 30 West Lake Street (Whittier)
photo: Francesca DiPiazza
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
2. Winter Biker
David Brown, Whittier resident, near the Nicollet Ave. entrance to the Midtown Greenway bike trail. His bike chain had come off, so he was walking the few blocks home when I met him.
photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
1. New Year's Eve
Peach blossoms, for good luck, and chrysanthemums (lower left) for long life, in a Vietnamese grocery on Nicollet Ave., closed for the Lunar New Year's Eve.
And so, we begin our neighborhood 365 project!
photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza
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