Romantic railroad tracks

A most excellent day spent learning how to use my iPhone camera and a load of really fun apps to make my photos appear something other than the way I took them. This is the Distressed app giving the image - the railroad tracks right next to the Minneapolis Photo Center -  its dreamy appearance. The birds were added!

Thawing river

Theme day: Photo of the Year 2011

My favorite photo for 2011 was published in July after I'd been to a street fair in Northeast Minneapolis. I loved the colors and styles of the vintage sunsuits these young women were wearing (and the 21st century hair coloring to set them apart from their grandmothers!).

To view thumbnails for all theme day participants, go here.

Rockabilly beat

I'm starting something new today. Following on the theme-based posts that made Happy Snappy a popular blog for several years (sadly, they have closed shop), I will chose a weekly theme and post photos Monday through Friday that explore that theme. Weekends will remain open to whatever I find interesting. The theme will undisclosed until the weekend following the posts, but if you care to make a stab sometime during the week, be my guest.

Here's the first post for the week of July 25-29 taken at Club Underground. The bassist of Al's Rockabilly Quartet (which was actually a trio the night I saw them) strums a mean beat.

Mr. Cool

Northeast Minneapolis has attracted a lot of artists to an old brewery site and other unused commercial space. The Art-a-whirl was held recently (in the rain mostly) but for a few moments Mr. Cool here was dry.

L3

My kinda place - breakfast, lunch, dinner - all in one place.

Grrrrr...

Don't leave your toddler in the car in this parking lot. Lions and tigers and bears!

Easter houses

These bright porches light up the neighborhood in northeast Minneapolis even on a dreary spring day.