Mississippi Overflowing it's Banks

What with all the flooding going on, especially in the Moorehead/Fargo area something we in the Twin Cities hear alot about, this flooding is nothing. It is an annual event when the Mississippi overflow it's banks as it travels thru Elk River. This picture is from Otsego Park, a nice park to take a summer evenings stroll. The river path is covered by water now which makes it an unfamiliar scene.

Roger

DIC Photo of the Day - Riomaggiore Seaside

I just love this picture, Riomaggiore. It's part of the Italian Rivera in a section known as the Cinque Terre. Riomaggiore is the southern most of five village accessible via hiking trails or the train. One couple in our Rick Steves tour group hiked the whole length of Cinque Terre, I forget the distance but it was an all day hike with little time to rest. We hiked between some of the villages and took the train between others. Riomaggiore was the last village to visit and for me it was the crown jewel.

Roger

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It was a Cold Morning

Well cold is relative in Minnesota. Yes it was cold, below zero, but it can get alot colder. At any rate I was dressed to the hilt and my hands and toes got oh so cold. After a while I quit feeling my toes and when I walk it's like walking without toes, feels wierd. But I think I finally figured that problem out cause the next day my toes were fine. I keep a couple of hand warmers in my jacket pockets to keep my batteries warm. Well OK they are to help warm up my hands after they start to sting but they play a second role of warming my batteries.

I met Travis on this beautiful January morning at Hollow Rock. The ice pancakes, as Travis likes to call them, were slowly moving about with the sun shining brightly thru the hole in the rock. The water was calm and it was tranquil, except it was cold.



After a day of photographic exploration, and feet warming, we returned to Hollow Rock for sunset. The wind had picked up during the day and lo and behold the ice pancake were gone. Things change rapidly on the North Shore. (That's Travis on the rock.)

Roger

Lake Gulls

Having grown up in California not far from the Pacific Ocean I was very familiar with Seagulls. Along the North Shore of Minnesota we have Lake Gulls, not their scientific name of course but it works. The sight of these birds is quite familiar. What is unfamiliar, at least for me, is seeing them sitting on a snow/ice covered rock. My family and friends in California will relate to this.

Roger

What Do You See?

It was a blustery day on the shores of Lake Superior. Snow was falling and the winds were blowing. Harrington Park, just north of Duluth, Minnesota has the only noteworthy piles of ice I would see that weekend. The ice that sticks up from the rest of the pile offers interesting shape, shapes that allow your imagination to run wild. When I first saw these two pieces of ice my imagination immediately locked on to something.

Does yours?

Roger

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