Tranquil Guayaquil at night

I want to try this place, it intrigues me

Photo: Michael Wright 

Local Color

A bike with my favorite color--purple (or lavendar) and two toned to boot, as well as a colorful helmet.  I would like to meet the owner.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

DUR DUR

Dur Dur in black and white.

Photo: Michael Wright 

ramp

parking ramp at the hospital. I love the monolithic look.

Photo: Michael Wright  

Home Plates

Reflections can provide a different perspective.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

2800

2800

Photo: Michael Wright 

Lost Clothes

On Christmas day you can see lots of lost clothes floating around Whittier park. I wonder who they belong to?

By: Nadine

Park sunset

Sunset over Whittier park.

Photo: Michael Wright  

Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center

I discovered this amazing place one day while on a run.  It's at 2924 4th Ave. S, just north of Lake Street, and it's attached to the Cristo Rey Jesuit High School.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

ATK

MCAD librarian Allan has overseen the transition of his department from "slide library" to online visual resources.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

allina hospitals tree lights on 28th and chicago

I love these trees, and the lights made me do this.

Photo by Mike Wright.

Honeywell Smokestack

View from 28th and 4th streets,  the old Honeywell company campus is now home to Wells Fargo.  The tower behind the smokestack was built by the Minneapolis Heat Regulator Co. in 1927 (you can see the name carved into  the light-colored material at the top of the tower on the other side of the tower), the same year it merged with Honeywell.

Wood Pile

On First Ave. S.

Photo: Marz Haney

Kona Coffee

Coffee from Hawai'i, waiting to get roasted at Dunn Bros. ($55/pound).

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Fingerpainting Christmas Cards

Photo: Marz Haney

Red and White Hearts

An appropriate decoration for the season.  Maybe I'll do a different view for Valentine's Day.

Photo:  Jo Ann

Porch Lights

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Doha furniture

another of welna hardware, at least it is at night this time.

Photo: Michael Wright  

White Stairs Trapezoid

Looking down from the 3rd floor in the new Target wing of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, you could get dizzy following the stairs.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Loon Grocery

The mural above the dumpster, 25th & Lyndale.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

wired church

Church at Blaisdell and 28th.

Photo: Michael Wright 

crane (not a bird)

Illuminated Crane

Photo: Michael Wright 

Full Moon Through Tree

Why are we so fascinated by the moon and other celestial objects?  Sat. morning there will be a lunar eclipse, the second this year.  There won't be another one till 2014.  See Nadine's earlier photo of the moon behind a tree--you inspired me.

Whose Prints?

Like Nadine this past Sunday, I wonder whose prints I am seeing in the snow.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

HotB

the lights at the heart of the beast.

Photo: Michael Wright  

Hot Color On A Cold Day

When it's cold outside like today,  I need a bright color, like the  magenta of this car hood, to warm me up.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

Afternoon Becomes Evening School Bus

Photo by Marz Haney

Foot Print

This footprint is really big and the only defined footprint I have seen for yards around. I wonder who's it could be?

By: Nadine

Snow Night

Photo: Marz Haney

Street Talk

I find these utility markings to be fascinating.  Red indicates electric power lines while blue indicates drinking water.  That blue outlined object looks like a manhole cover to me, which I thought would be the sewer line--that's supposed to be green.  I haven't found a 'glossary' of what the different lines mean.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

electric power lines, cables, conduit, and lighting cables

...and through the woods

Wheeling through the scrap of woodland at the edge of the K-Mart parking lot (Blaisdell & Lake).

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Pick up

pick up from Whittier school after after school.

Photo: Michael Wright

Stone Work Leads the Way

Flowers and greenary may be mostly gone, but the beauty of a garden is still visible as this stone work leads the eye through the yard.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

Culture Clash (The American Swedish Institute)

 

Construction workers seem like time travelers in the 1908 mansion that hosts the American Swedish Institute.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Two For One

28th St., near Chicago

By the way, you may legally bike on residential sidewalks but not on business area sidewalks.
(I know 'cause a cop gave me a warning--not the $90 fine--for biking on an Uptown sidewalk.)

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Sunset Over Chicago

The bus transfer station at Chicago & Lake.

Photo: Marz Haney

Window Cat

Might as well continue the cat theme.  This 'good fortune' kitty in a window along 26th St. east of Nicollet.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

Thanksgiving Baking

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Bad Waitress

with some color tweaking.


Photo: Alex Iantaffi

Koko, Squash and Kandinsky

There's nothing like playing with your cat, and enjoying the warmth of inside, along with beautiful, bright-colored squash and a Kandinsky painting when it's gray and snowy outside.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

knobbly and smooth.

Squash!

Photo: Michael Wright  

Frosty Flowers

These flowers seem to be frozen in time, trapped under the ice and snow.

First Snow!

A few random flakes fell earlier this November, but this is the first white ground. I've lent my camera to Marz, who is her visiting family in Oregon, so I ran outside with my laptop, here at Bob's Java Hut, to record it.
I didn't realize the computer would catch me too, out of the corner of its eye.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Abstract Art Wall

Now I am following Francesca's example.  I could see this framed and on my wall.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Accidental Abstract Expressionism

Art is everywhere: this is the in-side of a dumpster (outside a construction zone on Nicollet Ave.).

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

MCAD

In the darker evenings travel becomes more impressionistic.

Photo: Alex Iantaffi

Flamingo on House

Another piece of unique art in Whittier, on the 2nd story of a house; there's more on the front of the house.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

After the Night

Photo: Esther Perry
Photo booth: F. Davis DiPiazza's computer

Setting Sail for Winter

This ship is setting sail for what is sure to be a bitterly cold winter.

By: Nadine

Another Face on the Sidewalk

I didn't realize I was following in Jo Ann's photographic footsteps (see her post yesterday) when I snapped this sidewalk art on 28th Street today. 

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza