Celebrating summer (July theme day)

Here in Minnesota if you don't spend some time during the summer on a lake, you can't really claim citizen status. So, celebrate summer the Minnesota way and see how others around the world are enjoying the season at the City Daily Photo Project.

Theme day: Squares

The Minneapolis Convention Center doesn't have much to commend itself in the architecture category but it served nicely for this month's theme. See others at the City Daily Photo project.

Theme day: Triangles

My Victorian neighborhood has many renovated houses. Some have taken the refurbishment into the New Age.

For more theme day entries, visit the City Daily Photo gallery for April 2014.

Theme day: People on the Street

 

Just another day of the winter that would not end in downtown St. Paul. 

For other March theme day photos, click on the link to the City Daily Photo website.

Theme day: Entry

Welcome to the banks of the Mississippi where the Minnehaha tumbles in. Come on in to shelter yourself from the storm.

For more February theme day entries, go to City Daily Photo.

Theme day: Heights

Stand on the river bluff at the Science Museum of Minnesota and you can look down on a road that winds out from under the bluffs toward the riverside thoroughfare in downtown St. Paul. See other theme day entries here.

Theme day: Pedestrians

Leaving the Easter Sunday service on a cold spring day

Theme day: Cobblestones

Cobblestones are not found very readily any more on Midwestern streets, but my neighborhood has maintained a block-long stretch that is teeth-jarring. No wonder most cobblestone or brick streets have been paved over. If you'd like to see more theme day photos, go here.

Theme day: C is for curious

Theme day on City Daily Photo and ABC Wednesday arrive simultaneously today. When you go to a cabin in Minnesota the ground squirrels want to know who has moved in and whether there's anything in it for them.

For theme day thumbnails, go here. For more ABC entries, go here.

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.

Theme day: Action shot

It is theme day at the City Daily Photo project and the December 1st theme is action. These geese coming in for a landing on the lake at Loring Park in Minneapolis were only a few of many who are congregating. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants.

Theme day: Fences

The art community of Lowertown in St. Paul advertised their recent art crawl on a chain link fence that surrounds a construction site. Click here to see thumbnails of theme day participants.

Theme day: Mystery object

This goofy veggie mural is one of the exterior facades of Whole Foods in St. Paul. To see thumbnails for other theme days, click here.

And here's how the whole (no pun intended) wall looks:

Theme day: Spider's perspective

The next installment of this week's theme and simultaneously the theme day for the City Daily Photo. This spider has a great view of downtown St. Paul from the High Bridge.

To see other entries for this theme day, click here.

Theme day: Postcard worthy

Not your classic postcard image, but it does include the iconic First Bank building in downtown St. Paul. It also does duty as the first posting for my theme for the week of August 1-5. 

To see thumbnails for other Theme day photos click here.

Theme day: It's not that easy being green

Though if you're a frog in a Minnesota lake, it's gotta be a pretty sweet life.

For more theme day entries, click here.

Theme day: Under construction

This section of University Avenue between Fairview and Raymond in St. Paul is the longest stretch without a light rail stop. The Central Corridor project will connect downtown St. Paul with downtown Minneapolis via the University of Minnesota. It'll be a while though so pedestrians need to find alternate street crossings.
To see other theme day contributors, click here.

Theme day: Mailbox

I looked all over my neighborhood for something good. My, we have boring mailboxes! And then I came across this plucky (sorry!) fellow watching for the arrival of the mail on a front porch. Oddly enough I had discovered other animal-themed mailboxes in my neighborhood just last weekend and posted them before I knew what theme day was for May.

To view other entries, see the thumbnails here.

March theme day: Favorite part of town

It has to be along the Mississippi no matter what part of the city. Here it has turned east to flow past downtown St. Paul before it curves south again heading to the gulf (of Mexico, duh!). Of course, the river doesn't look like this on March 1. See what it does look like at other times of year.

This is part of the City Daily Photo theme day for March 2011. Thumbnails of other posts from around the world are here.

Theme day: Fountains

Of course, this photo, taken in Irvine Park just west of downtown St. Paul, was not taken recently. But we can't wait until this ornate fountain with the spouting gargoyles is flowing again now, can we?

Click here for thumbnails of other theme day photos.