St Anthony Falls in high water

B-N Bridge, Minneapolis

High water

Log jam at John's houseboat; flooded picnic area on Big Power Plant Island.

Daisy

"Just this...from birth to death"

Mississippi River in Minneapolis

Scavenger

Our national symbol helps itself to a meal of dead carp

Ice fishing with PK on Lake Superior

Plastic pelican in a parking lot snowstorm

This is the sight that greeted me as I opened the front door.

Views from St. Anthony Parkway in northeast Minneapolis

In the image to the left, note the unseemly visual similarity between the downtown Minneapolis skyline in the background and the appliance junkyard in the foreground. Trains and train tracks, on the other hand, still look pretty damn cool.