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

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.

Just Breathe Mural

Perfect message for this incredible fall weather:  Just Breathe.  The building is for sale or lease.  

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

American Swedish Institute Renovation

A new Nelson Cultura Center is being constructed next to the familiar, lovely Turnblad Mansion that we now know as the American Swedish Institute at 2600 Park Ave.  This fun construction mural informs us that the cultural center will be a LEED Gold certified building, using recycled materials, heated with geothermal, and landscaped to conserve water.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

Surreal Morning

The high contrast shadow in this arch reminds me of the paintings of Giorgio de Chiroco, the Italian Surrealist painter ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico and http://www.abcgallery.com/C/chirico/chirico.html) as in Piazza d'Italia, below.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci