In-Line Skaters

On the Greenway

photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

April 4: Sunny & Warm

On the Greenway

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Go fetch!

This woman was using a ball launcher to throw snowballs as well as a tennis ball for her Golden, along the Greenway.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Deir Yassin Remembered

On the Greenway, at Pillsbury Ave.

From the Wikipedia entry "The Deir Yassin Massacre":

The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when around 120 fighters from [Israeli/Jewish] paramilitary groups  ... attacked Deir Yassin, a Palestinian-Arab village of roughly 600 people near Jerusalem... during the civil war that preceded the end of British rule in Palestine.
 Around 107 villagers were killed during and after the battle for the village, including women and children...."

Photo Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Dog Walk

Along the Greenway...

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Enchanting Snowfall On the Midtown Greenway

People bike on the Greenway all year, like they do on the city streets.  It must have been quite a magical ride on this day.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

Freewheel Fix Up

Winter is hard on bikes, but you can roll off the Greenway and into Freewheel Bike Shop, where Joe (or someone) can replace a  broken cable or lube a chain on the spot.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Northern Red Oak Leaf And Foot On Midtown Greenway

This northern red oak leaf is so wonderfully preserved, flattened on the Greenway blacktop surface. Oaks are in the Quercus genus; therefore the scientific name for this leaf is Quercus rubra (red).  Oak leaves with pointed lobes are in the red oak family and oak leaves with rounded lobes (like the bur oak) are in the white oak family.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Cepro Site Greenspace on the Greenway

Still looks like summer.  Not very many trails are in a trench like the Midtown Greenway.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Running down the Greenway

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Northern Spark On The Greenway

Hundreds participated in the Northern Spark all-night art festival and Greenway Glow fundraising ride on the Midtown Greenway.  Fifteen art-music-performances occurred on the Greenway while the lit bicyclists and Northern Spark participants watched, rode the Greenway and had an all-around good time.  Musicians pictured in this photo-collage are, left-center, Jack Brass Band and center, Dorothy Doring and her band up on the Midtown Sheraton plaza overlooking the Greenway.

In 2013, the Northern Spark event will occur on Sat. June 8-Sun. June 9.

Photo collage:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Mugwech--Welcome

Shirley Heyer enjoying the new swings and recreational space at the Cepro entry to the Midtown Greenway, between 10th and 11th avenues.  The structures holding the swings bear the word "welcome" in six languages: English, Braille, Dakota, Ojibwe, Spanish, and Somali.  This is phase one of the project which covers the east side of the block.

Come Oct. 6 at 5:30 pm for an open house celebrating the built section, and try out a swing.

photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

Emergency

One of the EMERGENCY beacons along the Greenway.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Predator, Prey

 

I see lots of feral cats, like this wild child, on the Greenway. I imagine the pickings are pretty good, this ex-sparrow among them.

According to a 2007 article, "With shorter and warmer winters becoming more common in the north, Minnesota is seeing a growing problem with feral felines, whose numbers are exploding all over the state."

Bat Berries Bike Gloves

E. picking raspberries along the Greenway. A couple kids came along and were intrigued.
"Can we do that too?" they asked.
She showed them how; I got the sense they'd never picked berries before.

Photo: Francesca DiPiazza

One reason we're the #1 biking city

Midtown Greenway looking west from Pleasant Ave. bridge.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci