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A peaceful winter photo of the Mississippi River at Hidden Falls Regional Park, on a sunny day with snow along the river shore and bare trees on the riverbanks.

Just checking in from #Minnesota, where it’s not a #hellhole.

Keeping stupid trendy stuff out of St. Paul is the entire magic of St. Paul.

What are your top 5 movie genres?
Mine are:

1. Small, peaceful, low-tech community escapes assimilation by corporate entity.

2. Woman outwits really bad guys, undetected.

3. Wandering the High Plains.

4. Blackout curtains & spies on the South Coast.

5. Women wear wimples.

#Minnesota People, I hope you have #Klobuchar on speed dial at 202-224-3244 so you can call her RIGHT NOW TONIGHT & help her remember not to vote to end the #shutdown w/o a guarantee to extend #ACA subsidies in case she thinks she should do that in the name of bipartisanship. Tell her to vote no.
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A photo of seven steps going up to a house. There are red maple leaves all over the steps, and also scattered among the green and yellowing plants on either side of the stairs. At the top of the staircase there is a large bush with green leaves, and just behind it a window of a white stucco house is visible.

Red carpet. #photography #Minnesota #autumn

Red and green-leaved vines hang in front of a double tree trunk. Behind is a riot of yellow and green fall color.

All the #autumn colors at Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota.
#photography

Keep going! That’s “The Show Must Go On” by Three Dog Night!

Two empty, abandoned, brown leather shoes with white soles sit side by side atop a graffiti-covered concrete barrier. Beyond them is a long expanse of green grass with some cars and campers parked under large trees in the distance.

The #Rapture? #AlienAbduction? #InvisibilityCloak ? 🤔
Friday, August 22, 2025 at Hidden Falls Regional Park, Saint Paul, #Minnesota. #photography #shoes

A baby white-tailed deer looks directly at the camera over some grass and leafy plants. The fawn has large ears and big dark eyes. Its body is reddish-brown with white spots. Behind it are some large tree trunks.

A babe in the forest at Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota. #photography

Points to #ELCA Bishop Eaton for shutting down the applause from people not affected by the proposed accessibility solution to voting. “Are you affected by the scrolling issue?” #ELCACWA25

I am a nun in a film or television drama. I am very thin and pale because I subsist on communion wafers and never go outside the church walls. All I do is pray and obsess about the priest. I speak in a childlike voice except when I am hallucinating.

Recipe of the Month Savory Vegetable Pancakes

Recipe of the Month
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Two people stand on the tree-lined banks of the river, fishing as the sun sets behind them. The sun is reflected in the water.

#Fishing at sunset on the #MississippiRiver at Hidden Falls Regional Park in Saint Paul, #Minnesota on June 30, 2025. #photography

A yellow warbler, a small yellow bird with light brown wings, a dark beak and black eyes, grips a reed and looks directly at the camera.

A Yellow Warbler (setophaga petechia) looks to see what I’m up to at Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota. #birds #photography

Indeed.

Love is patient.
Love is kind.
Love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way.
It is not irritable.
It keeps no record of wrongs.
It does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth.

— 1 Corinthians 13

A female white-tailed deer reaches up to nibble on leaves under a tree in a green meadow.

A female white-tailed deer reaches up to nibble on leaves under a tree in a green meadow.

An evening snack. #deer #Minnesota #photography

A Meadow Anemone blossom is pictured. It has five overlapping white petals in a cupped shape and a cluster of tiny yellow stamens in the center. A number of lobed green leaves surround it.

A Meadow Anemone (anemonastrum canadense) by the road. #Minnesota #wildflowers #photography

A red-winged blackbird, which is a medium-sized black bird with red and yellow shoulder epaulet feathers, perches on a leafy branch.

A red-winged blackbird watches over his territory at Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota. #birds #photography

A painted turtle suns itself on a bit of turf in a lake. Its head has yellow and green stripes, and its shell is grey.

It’s a good evening for basking at the lake. #turtles #minnesota #photography

This fellow was showing off for the girls, but they were mostly ignoring him. #birds #turkeys #photography #minnesota

A Great Crested Flycatcher, with brown wings and a yellow breast, perches on a slender branch over a swampy patch.

I caught this Flycatcher before he flew. #birds #photography #minnesota

YouTube video by Evangelical Lutheran Church in America George Floyd: We Rise. We Remember. We Resist. Five Years Later | Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton

“Racism is one of many tools of white supremacy, and a sin that distorts God’s image in all of us, and it stands against the Gospel we proclaim.”
youtu.be/W_HH9ltJRpk

A view of the river shining in the sun with trees on the far bank. A bridge cuts across the middle of the picture.

Diamonds dancing on the #MississippiRiver under the I-35 Bridge in Mendota Heights, #Minnesota. #photography

A sunny view of the Mississippi River curving downstream with tree-lined banks on either side. A man stands on the bank near a watercraft. Several people fish from a boat in the middle of the river.

A perfect #spring day on the #MississippiRiver at Hidden Falls Regional Park in Saint Paul, #Minnesota. #photography #fishing

A large snapping turtle on the surface of a road looks at the camera with a seemingly pleasant expression.

This snapping #turtle and I both enjoyed the evening at Fort Snelling State Park, #Minnesota.

Read what you write out loud to yourself. It’s the best way to catch word mix-ups and garbled sentences.

the monstrous lack of curiositye about the worlde, the proude and colossal ignorance, the devastatinge lack of compassioun and grace

A small, bright half moon rises in a deep blue sky over tree branches with pale green new spring leaves.

#moon #photography

“Trustworthy journalism”doesn’t include giving airtime to the likes of Steve Bannon, yall. I had been a longtime monthly supporter of Minnesota Public Radio but I canceled my membership last week. What were you thinking?