Cat Party!

Seen on the "comments & suggestions" bulletin board at the Wedge Co-op (Lyndale & 22nd St.): Happy Halloween!

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

The Marie Antoinette

 

From the AIA Guide to the Twin Cities:
Marie Antoinette Apartments
Blaisdell and 22 St. W.
Architect Carleton W. Farnham, 1939
"A charming Moderne apartment building with black vitrolite glass around the entrances."

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Downtown, Night

This is a view from the 35w pedestrian bridge just south of Franklin Avenue.  A cool crisp evening let the lights of downtown shine thru wonderfully.  This is a 40 second exposure at F22.

Photo: Andrew Casey

"Pretty cunning, don'chya think?"

Amanda with her Jayne hat and her son's monkey, "Monkey," at Dunn Bros Coffee.

The hat is from Joss Whedon's sci-fi show Firefly:
tough-guy character Jayne Cobb receives such a hat in the mail from his mother. He puts it on and asks his bemused shipmates, "How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'chya think?"
 
His shipmate Wash comments, "Man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything."

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Ice Plate

This thin ice-disc formed in the birdbath last night.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Porch Pensieve

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Frenz

Frenz Automotive is located on 2749 Nicollet Avenue.  I took this shot on October 25 in the early evening hours.  Brrrr.

Photo: Andrew Casey

Kitchen Composition

 Photo: Marz Haney

The French Fry Cut

Inside the Black Forest Inn:  part of a series I'm doing behind the scenes in the kitchen, the machine is cutting potatoes into French fries (obviously).

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Vote Yes

This photo can be a bit controversial to some (for whatever reason)...

Photo: Andrew Casey

[This defaced "Vote Yes" billboard is a few blocks west of Whittier, but given the upcoming Nov. 6 vote on amending the Minnesota constitution (to define marriage as only between 1 man and 1 woman) we decided to post it anyway.]

1908 in Phillips: "Nervy Thief Takes Mare"

I found this news item about a horse theft in 1908 here:
http://www.pnn.org/History/Stories/horsethieving.htm
I searched the address on Google maps, and put the two together:

By Francesca Davis DiPiazza, who is forced to be resourceful because she broke her camera last week...

Spaetzel In The Works

Inside the Black Forest Inn: left to right (in the kitchen), Nina is holding a package of spaezel, Erich Christ (family that  founded and owns the Black Forest) monitors the final step in the process of putting the covers on the packaged spaetzel, and (lower right) the machine putting the covers on the packages of spaetzel.

Photos:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Big Cats

Murals on Blaisdell Ave. S., at 29th Street
(Who made these?)

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Fargo, Minneapolis

This illuminated image of Francis McDormand as Marge Gunderson  in Fargo hangs on the wall overlooking Vertical Endeavor's parking lot, 25th & Nicollet.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Caught

Photo: Marz Haney

Corner Life

The little boy is pretending to talk on a cell phone.
The vacant lot on the corner of 27th & Nicollet Ave. S. sees the whole sweep of human life (practically, eventually) passing by.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Window Cat

Photo: Marz Haney

Leaded Artisan Glass

    Another view inside the Black Forest Inn.  You can find more information about art inside the restaurant, at this website:  http://www.blackforestinnmpls.com/pgs/art.php

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Across The Table

   Thanks to Erica Christ of the family-owned Black Forest Inn, this is one of several photos I'm calling 'Inside' businesses and other entities in our Phillips-Whittier neighborhoods.  In future photos, you will see behind the scenes, as well as views of the restaurant the public can see.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Hope Mural

Mural on 26th Ave. and 2nd Ave. S. 
(I had thought this was about Obama---looking closer, I see it's a reference to the New Testament.)
Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Waiting in Line

With the weather so dry, I put out water for the local scruffians. Here we see--through a screen door--a squirrel waiting its turn while another drinks.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Blazing Colors Of Fall

   Some hedges are the backdrop with less fiery leaves in the foreground.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Drought

The U.S. Drought Monitor says Minnesota's 2012 drought conditions range from moderate to extreme.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Anticipation

Ready for next spring's crop of flowers.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Land Gulls

Seagulls are scavengers, and the pickings are good by the White Castle on Lake & Blaisdell.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Handmade Vote NO sign

Vote no sign (handmade) near Whittier school.

Photo: Mike Wright

Maple Leaf In Fall Color

You can't improve on Nature's work.  I feel compelled to pick up leaves with rich coloring.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci